Method and system for model driven development

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9645799-B2
Application number	US-201514799602-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2015
Priority date	Sep 25, 2014
Publication date	May 9, 2017
Grant date	May 9, 2017

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for providing a technical solution for model driven development. Program code is analyzed to determine the execution sequence of states of the program code. The program code is generated by performing a first transformation to a model. The model includes an abstract description of a business implemented by the program code. At least part of the statement of the program code is grouped into functional blocks. A visual representation of the program code is created. The visual representation is based on the execution sequence and the functional blocks. A code snipped is determined to be preserved in the program code based on a user's annotation of the visual representation. The code snippety is to be preserved in new program code generated by performing a second transformation to the model. The second transformation is executed after the first transformation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented method for model driven development,
the method comprising:
analyzing program code, by a computer, to determine execution sequence of statements of the program code, the program code being generated by performing a first transformation to a model, the model including an abstract description of a business implemented by the program code;
grouping, by the computer, at least a part of the statements of the program code into functional blocks;
creating, by the computer, a visual representation of the program code based on the execution sequence and the functional blocks, for display;
determining, by the computer, a code snippet to be preserved in the program code, in response to receiving an annotation input of the visual representation, the code snippet to be preserved in new program code generated by performing a second transformation to the model, the second transformation being executed after the first transformation;
generating, by the computer, metadata of the code snippet; and
updating, by the computer, a transformation policy of the model, wherein the transformation policy is based on the metadata to control the second transformation of the model, and a user selection of the visual representation of the program code based on the execution sequence and the functional blocks.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the grouping at least a part of the statements of the program code into functional blocks comprises:
parsing, by the computer, a control flow of the program code based on a predefined keyword in the program code to determine the functional blocks.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the creating a visual representation of the program code based on the execution sequence and the functional blocks comprises:
creating, by the computer, a graphical representation of the program code based on the execution sequence and the functional blocks.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the creating a visual representation of the program code based on the execution sequence and the functional blocks comprises:
determining, by the computer, semantic content of a variable or process in the program code based on a vocabulary associated with at least one of the model and the program code; and
presenting, by the computer, the semantic content in the visual representation of the program code.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the metadata indicates a functional block to which the code snippet belongs and a location of the code snippet in the program code.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the location of the code snippet in the program code is indicated by at least one of:
a start line number and an end line number of the code snippet in the program code; a start line number and the number of lines of the code snippet in the program code;
an end line number and the number of lines of the code snippet in the program code;
and at least one previous code snippet and at least one subsequent code snippet of the code snippet in the program code.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the metadata and the program code are stored independently.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
retrieving, by the computer, the code snippet from the program code based on the metadata in response to a node corresponding to the code snippet being absent in the model; and
inserting, by the computer, the code snippet into the new program code based on the execution sequence.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the metadata indicates a location at which the code snippet is inserted into the new program code.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Geng Shao M
• Hahn Timothy J
• Kaminsky David L
• Liu Ying
• Ogle David M
• Wang Xi Ning
• Zhang Tian L

Classifications

• G06F8/34

  Graphical or visual programming · CPC title

• G06F8/35 Primary

  model driven · CPC title

• G06F11/323

  Visualisation of programs or trace data · CPC title

• G06F8/427

  Parsing · CPC title