Code Generation

Kind: technique

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:code-generation

Canonical: Lexicon

Producing source code automatically from a higher-level model, schema, or specification.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Capacity Planning and before Composition Root.

Category

• Core Vocabulary

Refactors

• Contract-First Design
• Property-Based Testing
• Model-Driven Architecture

Enabled by

• Metadata-Driven Design

Reinforced by

• Code as Data

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture