[westurner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-trip_engineering :

> Round-trip engineering (RTE) is a functionality of software development tools that synchronizes two or more related software artifacts, such as, source code, models, configuration files, and even documentation.[1] The need for round-trip engineering arises when the same information is present in multiple artifacts and therefore an inconsistency may occur if not all artifacts are consistently updated to reflect a given change. For example, some piece of information was added to/changed in only one artifact and, as a result, it became missing in/inconsistent with the other artifacts.

Source-to-source_compiler > See also > #ROSE, : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler