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Meta-Programming Task Specification Using Feature-Based Patterns and Domain Program Scenarios

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Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development

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The development of a meta-program includes two interrelated stages: (1) task specification resulting in creating of a specification model and (2) transformation of the model into a meta-program representation. In Chap. 10, we focus on the specification task. In general, the needed data to consider the task comes from three sources: requirements for generalization, domain model and domain program that is to be generalized. We accept that the domain model is obtained through domain analysis and the domain is represented by Feature Diagram(s). As Feature Diagrams may be general enough (e.g. they may represent the entire domain to be implemented as a software system), we need to analyse the model and extract some model patterns that are relevant to construct domain generators.

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Štuikys, V., Damaševičius, R. (2013). Meta-Programming Task Specification Using Feature-Based Patterns and Domain Program Scenarios. In: Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, vol 5. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4126-6_10

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