A code synthesis experiment

Author

Graves, Henson ; Louie, Joe ; Mullen, Tracy

Author_Institution

Lockheed Palo Alto Res. Labs., CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

20-23 Sep 1992

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

17

Abstract

The authors have built a prototype software synthesis system, the Lockheed Environment for Automatic Programming (LEAP). The LEAP synthesis approach depends on using software assets that are built during the course of application development. In the largest application built so far the synthesized software consisted of 65000 lines of Ada code and 10000 lines of C code. LEAP was used to construct two simple application examples. The experiment was to graphically construct system descriptions to represent generic forms of the two examples provided, and to have LEAP synthesize Ada code using its template asset base. One example was an event system that represented the implicit invocation cliche. The second example was a phone database manager

Keywords

Ada; automatic programming; software tools; Ada code; C code; LEAP synthesis approach; Lockheed Environment; application development; automatic programming; event system; implicit invocation cliche; phone database manager; prototype software synthesis system; simple application examples; software assets; synthesized software; template asset base; Application software; Automatic programming; Decision support systems; Displays; Prototypes; Software architecture; Software prototyping; Software systems; Target tracking; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference, 1992., Proceedings of the Seventh

Conference_Location

Mclean, VA

ISSN

1068-3062

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2880-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KBSE.1992.252913

Filename

252913