Composing textual modelling languages in practice

Meyers, Bart; Cicchetti, Antonio; Guerra, Esther; Lara, Juan de

doi:10.1145/2508443.2508449

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“…Conversely, the inclusion of further abstraction mechanisms such as rule inheritance, element alias and other abstractions may also prove fruitful. Improvements to the mapping language concrete syntax to make use of recurring patterns, possibly through the use of templates [86].…”

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confidence: 99%

Adapting modeling environments to domain specific interactions

Sousa

2017

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Software tools are being used by experts in a variety of domains. There are numerous software modeling environments tailored to a specific domain expertise. However, there is no consistent approach to generically synthesize a product line of such modeling environments that also take into account the user interaction and experience adapted to the domain. The focus of my thesis is the proposal of a solution to explicitly model user interfaces and interaction of modeling environments so that they can be tailored to the habits and preferences of domain experts. We extend current model-driven engineering techniques that synthesize graphical modeling environments to also take interaction models into account. The formal semantics of our language framework is based on statecharts. We define a development process for generating such modeling environments to maximize reuse through a novel statechart refinement technique.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting modeling environments to domain specific interactions

Sousa

2017

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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“…In [68] they go further more with a definition of operators to compose DSMLs with a proposal for automatic mapping to graphical syntax. Meyers et al [69,70] proposes a template based technique for the modular definition and composition of DSMLs, including their abstract syntax, semantics, and concrete syntax (relying on metaDepth [71]).…”

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A Practical Approach for Extending DSMLs by Composing their Metamodels

Abouzahra¹,

Sabraoui²,

Afdel³

2018

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Domain specific modeling (DSM) has become popular in the software development field during these last years. It allows to design an application using a domain specific modeling language (DSML) and to generate an end-solution software product directly from models. However providing a new DSML is a complex and costly job. This can be reduced by the reuse of existing DSMLs to compose new ones trough a metamodel composition approach. This paper provides a composition rules based code generator facility for extending DSMLs. In doing so, it proposes three rules to compose DSMLs by composing there metamodels: reference rule, specialization rule and fusion rule. The results of an exploratory case study on using these rules are depicted. In addition a proof of concept of the code generator facility which generates the necessary infrastructure to quickly build new DSMLs is implemented and applied to the case study. The benefits of our approach are measured relying on three indicators: the reduced development time, the reused software components and the gain on learnability.

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“…The existing work includes studies on metamodel templates (such as [7] and [42]); composition and reuse of concrete syntax (both for textual [29] and graphical notations [38]); and reuse of definitions of the dynamic semantics. For specifying reusable fragments (building blocks) of dynamic semantics and/or weaving/-composing them together, some of the studies use informal (or semiformal) notations: transformation languages (such as Epsilon Object Language, EOL, in [29]), UML activity diagrams (in [43]), and UML state and sequence diagrams (in [23]). …”

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Reusable specification templates for defining dynamic semantics of DSLs

Tikhonova

2017

Softw Syst Model

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In the context of model-driven engineering, the dynamic (execution) semantics of domain-specific languages (DSLs) is usually not specified explicitly and stays (hard) coded in model transformations and code generation. This poses challenges such as learning, debugging, understanding, maintaining, and updating a DSL. Facing the lack of supporting tools for specifying the dynamic semantics of DSLs (or programming languages in general), we propose to specify the architecture and the detailed design of the software that implements the DSL, rather than requirements for the behavior expected from DSL programs. To compose such a specification, we use specification templates that capture software design solutions typical for the (application) domain of the DSL. As a result, on the one hand, our approach allows for an explicit and clear definition of the dynamic semantics of a DSL, supports separation of concerns and reuse of typical design solutions. On the other hand, we do not introduce (yet another) specification formalism, but we base our approach on an existing formalism and apply its extensive tool support for verification and validation to the dynamic semantics of a DSL.

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Composing textual modelling languages in practice

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Adapting modeling environments to domain specific interactions

Adapting modeling environments to domain specific interactions

A Practical Approach for Extending DSMLs by Composing their Metamodels

Reusable specification templates for defining dynamic semantics of DSLs

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