The benefits of Software Rapid Prototyping and Automatic Production Code Generation

This article aims at discussing the impacts of using the rapid prototyping tool ASCET in the software development process. Our experience shows that there is a growing demand from Brazilian customers for participation in the development of specific functions. However, following the traditional V-model for software development until the generation of production code can be very time-consuming and costly, especially if we think of complex functions that might need several design iterations until the final customer acceptance. In order to overcome this situation we have introduced in our teamwork the rapid prototyping concept together with automatic production code generation.