Graphical representations and software engineering

This paper reports the ongoing activities to generate graphical representation manipulating user interfaces from very high level specifications. First, an overview of graphical notations that are relevant for software engineering is given. Second, the capabilities offered by the current version of the generator G/sup 2/F are presented. Third, the paper shows how software technology techniques in turn have been applied to extend G/sup 2/F by the power of attribute grammars.<<ETX>>

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