Validating component compositions in software system generators
Don S. Batory, Bart J. Geraci · 2002
Generators synthesize software systems by composing components from reuse libraries. In general, not all syntactically correct compositions are semantically correct. We present domain independent algorithms for the GenVoca model of software generators to validate component compositions. Our work relies on attribute grammars and offers powerful debugging capabilities with explanation based error reporting. We illustrate our approach by showing how compositions are debugged by a GenVoca generator for container data structures.