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Modeling the Full Stack: Frontend and Backend Generation with Extended Domain Models

2025· article· W4417250951 on OpenAlexaff
Gagandeep Singh, Gunter Mussbacher

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Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicModel-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDomain (mathematical analysis)Code generationPipeline (software)Interface (matter)Class (philosophy)User interfaceCode (set theory)

Abstract

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In model-driven engineering courses, students are often asked to implement complete applications from domain models with code generation following architectures such as Model-View-Controller. However, much of the implementa-tion-both backend logic and user interface still involves substantial manual effort. FeatureLanguage is a lightweight domainspecific language built on top of domain models and introduced to enable code generation from high-level feature specifications in such educational settings. In this work, we extend FeatureLanguage to also support User Interface (UI) generation. This extension enables automatic generation of frontend alongside backend components, all from a user-defined domain model, layout related constructs, and UI annotations, which are all expressed in an extended class diagram. The result is a more complete transformation pipeline that reduces the implementation burden on students and instructors. According to a comparison of the generated UI screens against the manually crafted UI implementation over four course projects, on average $83 \%$ of required UI elements per screen are automatically generated.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.524
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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