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Community-driven language development

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Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo,

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MiSE '12: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering

Pages 29 - 35

Published: 02 June 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Software development processes are becoming more collaborative, trying to integrate end-users as much as possible. The idea is to advance towards a community-driven process where all actors (both technical and nontechnical) work together to ensure that the system-to-be will satisfy all expectations. This seems specially appropriate in the field of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) typically designed to facilitate the development of software for a particular domain. DSLs offer constructs closer to the vocabulary of the domain which simplifies the adoption of the DSL by end-users. Interestingly enough, the development of DSLs is not a collaborative process itself. In this sense, the goal of this paper is to propose a collaborative infrastructure for the development of DSLs where end-users have a direct and active participation in the evolution of the language. This infrastructure is based on Collaboro, a DSL to represent change proposals, possible solutions and comments arisen during the development and evolution of a language.

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Zolotas AMatragkas NDevlin SKolovos DPaige R(2019)Type inference in flexible model-driven engineering using classification algorithmsSoftware and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)10.1007/s10270-018-0658-518:1(345-366)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10270-018-0658-5
Felderer MJeschko FRainer AMacDonell SKeung J(2018)A Process for Evidence-Based Engineering of Domain-Specific LanguagesProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 201810.1145/3210459.3210479(169-174)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3210459.3210479

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MiSE '12: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering

June 2012

102 pages

ISBN:9781467317573

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Joanne Atlee
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Robert Baillargeon
Sodius
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Robert France
Colorado State University
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Geri Georg
Colorado State University
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Ana Moreira
Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal
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Bernhard Rumpe
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Steffen Zschaler
King's College London, UK

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Zolotas AMatragkas NDevlin SKolovos DPaige R(2019)Type inference in flexible model-driven engineering using classification algorithmsSoftware and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)10.1007/s10270-018-0658-518:1(345-366)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2019
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Felderer MJeschko FRainer AMacDonell SKeung J(2018)A Process for Evidence-Based Engineering of Domain-Specific LanguagesProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering 201810.1145/3210459.3210479(169-174)Online publication date: 28-Jun-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3210459.3210479

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