Tutorial on Generative Software Development

Software product line engineering (SPLE) [5] seeks to exploit the commonalities among systems from a given problem domain while managing the variabilities among them in a systematic way. In SPLE, new system variants can be rapidly created based on a set of reusable assets, such as a common architecture, components, and models. Generative software development [6] aims at modeling and implementing product lines in such a way that a given system can be automatically generated from a specification written in one or more textual or graphical domain-specific languages (DSLs) [13, 4, 15, 8, 3, 1, 12, 14].