Round-trip Engineering

Round-trip Engineering is a process in software development that keeps design models and code synchronized. It allows developers to generate code from a visual model and then make changes directly in the code, with those updates reflected back into the model. This bi-directional flow ensures consistency between the design and the implementation. It streamlines development, reducing errors and duplication of effort, by maintaining synchronization throughout the project lifecycle. Essentially, it treats design and code as two aspects of the same system, enabling seamless updates in either view without losing work or creating inconsistencies.