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A Method to Achieve Automation in the Development of Web-Based Software Projects

Authors:
María Consuelo Franky
Jaime A. Pavlich-Mariscal

Keywords: Web technologies; Frameworks; Web applications development; Software Reuse; Automatic Software Generation; Model-driven development of Web applications.

Abstract:
This paper proposes a method to achieve a high degree of automation in the development of Web software projects. This method is based on the experience of two consecutive university-industry projects that have received funding from the Colombian government. These projects aim to improve the software development tools of a large-scale software company, applying techniques based on Model Driven Engineering (MDE) and software building tools to achieve a high level of automation in generating new Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) projects and in integrating existing components developed by the company. The tools developed in the first project significantly improved the development speed in the company. In the final state of the second (ongoing) project, we expect that MDE transformers will improve flexibility in generating Java EE projects with different architectures and different types of user interfaces, such as JavaServer Faces (JSF) or Java FX2. We believe that the steps performed during those two projects can serve as a guide for other software organizations to effectively automate their development for large scale projects.

Pages: 83 to 88

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: July 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-361-2

Location: Paris, France

Dates: from July 20, 2014 to July 24, 2014