Patent ID: 7237224
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically generating program code, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: while scanning a directory comprising a plurality of electronic documents that form a software design specification that defines software classes, function declarations, and relationships among software classes, automatically identifying a section of the software design specification that corresponds to a definition of a particular software class, and maintaining a location of the section of the software design specification within the directory using a data structure mapping (a) the particular software class to (b) a path, within the directory, of the section of the software design specification that corresponds to the definition of the particular software class; programmatically generating skeleton code of at least a first program file and of a second program file based on the definition of the particular software class; wherein the skeleton code of the first program file corresponds to code for declaring one or more functions of the particular software class; wherein the skeleton code of the second program file corresponds to code for implementing the particular software class; automatically creating, based at least in part on the location of the section of the software design specification within the directory of the software design specification, an output directory for locating the first program file and the second program file.