An approach for the systematic development of domain‐specific languages |
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| Authors: | Mark Strembeck Uwe Zdun |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Information Systems, New Media Lab, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), Austria;2. Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria |
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| Abstract: | Building tailored software systems for a particular application domain is a complex task. For this reason, domain‐specific languages (DSLs) receive a constantly growing attention in recent years. So far the main focus of DSL research is on case studies and experience reports for the development of individual DSLs, design approaches and implementation techniques for DSLs, and the integration of DSLs with other software development approaches on a technical level. In this paper, we identify and describe the different activities that we conduct when engineering a DSL, and describe how these activities can be combined in order to define a tailored DSL engineering process. Our research results are based on the experiences we gained from multiple different DSL development projects and prototyping experiments. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | applied software engineering model‐driven software development domain‐specific languages language engineering |
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