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software proximately 5 days to complete – including testing time. This small initial investment in time is quickly recouped thanks to the radically productivity improvement. James L.Hammond james.hammond@ metacase.com) is sales and marketing director of MetaCase (Jyväskylä,Finland) REFERENCES 1. Weiss, D, Lai, C T R, (1999) Software Product-line Engineering, Addison Wesley Longman. 2. Safa, L (2007) The Making Of User-Interface Designer: A Proprietary DSM Tool. In: Proceedings of the 7th OOPSLA Workshop on domain-speciﬁc modeling, 21—22 October. Montreal, Computer Science and Information System Reports, Technical Reports, TR-38, University of Jyväskylä. 3. MetaCase (2007) Nokia Case Study [brochure]. Jyväskylä, MetaCase. 4. MetaCase (2007) EADS Case Study [brochure]. Jyväskylä, MetaCase. 5. Haddad, C (2004) Model-Driven Development: Rethinking the Development Process. Burton Group. 6. Kieburtz, R (1996) A Software Engineering Experiment in Software Component Generation. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering, 25 - 30 March. Berlin, IEEE Computer Society. 7. Kelly, S and Tolvanen, J-P (2008) domainspeciﬁc modeling: Enabling Full Code Generation. Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. A free 31-day evaluation version of MetaEdit+, including the use case described above, is available for download at www.metacase.com. ﬁcation of template-based generators that crawl through models and output model values and ﬁxed or conditional text. This domain-speciﬁc code generation assures that the code generated from every developer, always meets the exact requirements established by the organization’s expert because they are built directly into the code generator. It should be noted that along with the rules established for the modeling language, it is also possible to include rule checking in the generators. This was the situation with this call processing case as well as all the domain rules could not be efﬁciently included in the metamodel since their checking would not make sense at the modeling time. For example, each proxy needs to be accessed in the call processing ﬂow by at least one other call element, but this kind of rule cannot be checked at the modeling time since immediately after adding a new proxy object to the model the design would be invalid. Generator based rule checking avoids this potential problem. Once the language and generators are complete, the organization is ready to start creating models and achieving the signiﬁcant productivity and quality beneﬁts previously mentioned. The time it takes to fully create the language and generators is dependent on the domain, but experiences with MetaEdit+ over the years have show that it usually ranges from a few man-days to a few man-weeks. The language and generators described in this use case took ap- 020-021-022-023_ESDE.indd 23 9/04/08 15:11:02 http://www.metacase.com http://www.syslogic.com http://www.syslogic.com

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