CodeGenie MDA Benefits

Corporate

• Increase software quality and productivity across projects
• Protect investment in existing UML technologies
• Create valuable intellectual property from UML model assets
• Achieve long-term development and maintenance cost savings

Management

• Increase predictability of cost and effort estimates across software development and maintenance projects
• Minimise requirements uncertainty and reduce project risks through rapid prototyping
• Achieve large-scale, model-based architecture reuse
• Ensure compliance with industry (Object Management Group) standard practices and evolving standards

Development

• Control any or all aspects of code generation directly from modeled system requirements
• Capture Application User Interface (AUI) models as UML artifacts
• Make UML models 1st class software artifacts by enforcing an “executable” UML profile

CodeGenie MDA Features

• XMI-based integration with leading UML model editors
• Executable UML model audit and reporting
• Platform-Independent Model (PIM) and Platform Model (PM) browsing
• Support for embedded target language actions (e.g. C++, Java)
• Support for model marking prior to transformation
• User-configurable model mappings: Platform-Independent Model to Platform-Specific Model (PSM)
• Automated PSM production
• CodeGenie regeneration based on target architecture
• User-configurable code generation archetypes
• Automatic code generation
• Support for auto-generation of textual artifacts other than code (e.g. test scripts, HTML documentation)
• Pre-defined architectures for C++, Java and J2EE
• Rapid prototype production based on Java architecture