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Automatic Code Generator for Screen Based Systems

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Definition and implementation of every system starts from its specification. After the developer received the verified specification, she can move to the code writing. Recently, modelling is used as the first step to the programming task. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is intensively exploited in order to standardize the code generation and to minimize the corresponding effort. Screen based interactive systems like smartphone applications or different booking services are of very special kind: GUI part of them is very big and mostly implements different screens and transitions from one screen to another. In our contribution, we provide general description and proof of concept of a graphical tool for such systems. First of all, the tool allows definition of the specification of the screen based systems in the most natural way - graphically. This avoid using of UML or similar formalisms as a less intuitive human dependent intermediate step. Then, given the specification of a screen based system, we show that a big part of the implementation (GUI code) may be generated automatically. We show how our general approach works for Android based implementation of the specification.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our students S. Namih, A. Mnasra, Y. Dubinsky and A. Zobedat for implementation of the tool.

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  1. Ort Braude College, Karmiel, Israel

    Katerina Korenblat & Elena V. Ravve

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Correspondence to Elena V. Ravve .

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  1. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Tatjana Welzer

  2. Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria

    Johann Eder

  3. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Vili Podgorelec

  4. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Robert Wrembel

  5. University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Mirjana Ivanović

  6. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Johann Gamper

  7. Poznań University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Mikoƚaj Morzy

  8. University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

    Theodoros Tzouramanis

  9. Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France

    Jérôme Darmont

  10. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Aida Kamišalić Latifić

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Korenblat, K., Ravve, E.V. (2019). Automatic Code Generator for Screen Based Systems. In: Welzer, T., et al. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1064. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30278-8_28

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