10 Benefits of Code Generation
Let’s get to the point. Here is the list:
- SW Quality: In every field: performance, reliability, security…
- Standarization: not only in source code but in user interface, database structures….
- Centralization: global policies such as error handling, exception management, data display format, data validation, permissions check, etc. are centralized on the generator. This kind of policies are also known as cross-cutting concerns and is an issue tackled by Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in traditional programming. Centralization avoids the issue.
- Refactoring: related to the previous benefit, code refactoring is easy an safe.
- Productivity: Lower cost and lower time-to-market (or release time).
- Analytical skills: code generation requires a deeper domain analysis before implementing the solution via the generator.
- Design Skills: requires a good architect with a wider view.
- Healthy Growth: prevents architecture degradation.
- Team Member Integration: development culture or rules induction are facilitated by code generation.
- Level of abstraction: programming in a more abstract way, besides easier to understand (is more intentional), opens the door to new features such as: unit test generation, self-documenting, data population, semantics, machine reasoning and others.
Code generation is not easy, implementing a generator requires time and effort, and even more if it’s a language workbench but, clearly, benefits are huge.
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Posted on May 24, 2014, in Academic, bheudek and tagged Academic, Code generation, Language Workbench. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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