Automatic Source Code Generation for Web-based Process-oriented Information Systems

Software development life cycle (SDLC) activities include: requirements analysis, design, development, testing and maintenance. The first two steps have wide impact in the project success, and errors in these stages can have large impact in the project duration and budget. To mitigate these problems, strategies like fast prototyping using natural language to specify software requirements have been proposed. These approaches can make the SDLC faster. In this context, this paper presents an approach to automatically generate a web application prototype running business processes using a restricted natural language specification. A comprehensive case study is presented to validate the proposal and demonstrate its applicability.