Today{\textquoteright}s software engineering practices are aimed at developing single systems. There are attempts to achieve reuse through object- and component-based technologies with two specific goals: to cut development costs, and time-to-market and to improve quality. But current research and practical experience suggest that only moving from the single system engineering to the system-family engineering approach can bring significant progress with respect to these goals [3,6,7].
Generative programming builds on system-family engineering and puts its focus on maximizing the automation of application development [1,2,4,5]: given a system specification, generators use a set of reusable components to generate the concrete system. Both the means of application specification, the generators, and the reusable components are developed in a domain-engineering cycle. This talk introduces the necessary techniques, notations, and processes using examples. It also outlines our vision of how the software industry can be transformed in a similar way the traditional industries moved from manual craftsmanship to automated assembly lines, and the role generative techniques can play in this transition.
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