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Best Practices for Model-to-Text Transformations

In Model-Driven Software Development, the generation of textual artifacts – often source code – plays an important role. However, often, code generation is seen as the “less important brother” of model-to-model transformations and is consequently treated as a second-class citizen. However, most developers come into MDSD through “simple” code generation and in most cases, the last step of a transformation chain is actually a code generator. It is therefore important that the generator is up to the challenge of generating non-trivial software systems. In this paper, we will report on best practices for code generation. The authors are part of the openArchitectureWare team and have significant experience wrt. code generation, from the perspectives of the tool builder, as well as from the perspective of the tool user (i.e. generator developer).

[Pos. Paper] 11.10.2006 Download... Abstract...	Best Practices for Model-to-Text Transformations
	Conference: Eclipse Summit 2006 Workshop: Modeling Symposium