Separating Concerns with Domain Specific Languages

Cook, Steve

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“…For example, we find DSLs to build graphical user interfaces [22] and to specify security policies [15]. The use of DSLs has become a successful technique to achieve separation of concerns in the development of complex systems [7].…”

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Reverse-Engineering Reusable Language Modules from Legacy Domain-Specific Languages

Méndez-Acuña

Galindo

Combemale

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The use of domain-specific languages (DSLs) has become a successful technique in the development of complex systems. Nevertheless, the construction of this type of languages is time-consuming and requires highly-specialized knowledge and skills. An emerging practice to facilitate this task is to enable reuse through the definition of lan-guage modules which can be later put together to build up new DSLs. Still, the identification and definition of language modules are complex and errorprone activities, thus hindering the reuse exploitation when developing DSLs. In this paper, we propose a computer-aided approach to (i) identify potential reuse in a set of legacy DSLs; and (ii) capitalize such potential reuse by extracting a set of reusable language modules with well defined interfaces that facilitate their assembly. We validate our approach by using realistic DSLs coming out from industrial case studies and obtained from public GitHub repositories.

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Reverse-Engineering Reusable Language Modules from Legacy Domain-Specific Languages

Méndez-Acuña

Galindo

Combemale

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…A DSL offers the abstractions (a.k.a., language constructs) needed to describe an aspect of a system under construction. The use of DSLs has become a successful technique to achieve separation of concerns in the development of complex systems [5].…”

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Puzzle: A Tool for Analyzing and Extracting Specification Clones in DSLs

Méndez-Acuña

Galindo

Combemale

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The use of domain-specific languages (DSLs) is a successful technique in the development of complex systems. Indeed, the construction of new DSLs addressing the particular needs of software projects has become a recurrent activity. In this context, the phenomenon of specification cloning has started to appear. Language designers often copy&paste some parts of the specification from legacy DSLs to "reuse" formerly defined language constructs. As well known, this type of practices introduce problems such as bugs propagation, thus increasing of maintenance costs. In this paper, we present Puzzle, a tool that uses static analysis to facilitate the detection of specification clones in DSLs implemented under the executable metamodeling paradigm. Puzzle also enables the extraction specification clones as reusable language modules that can be later used to build up new DSLs.

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“…Finally, note that a single DSL is rarely sufficient to describe all the system facets, hence a number of DSLs are typically used in combination to describe all the views of a complex system. In this respect, DSLs and the DSM paradigm provide an approach to separation of concerns and can be regarded as a form of AOM [3], [4].…”

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Preserving Aspects via Automation: A Maintainability Study

Hovsepyan

Scandariato

Baelen

et al. 2011

2011 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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This paper presents an empirical study comparing two alternatives for generating code from aspect-oriented models. In an aspect "disrupting" process, an object oriented implementation in Java is automatically generated from domain specific models, comprising a mix of UML (for core functionality) and DSLs (for qualities like security and performance). In an aspect "preserving" process, an aspect oriented implementation in AspectJ is automatically generated from the same models. In both alternatives, a number of subjects are asked to perform several maintenance tasks requiring the addition and improvement of functionality. The results show that, in most of the cases, the AO alternative provides for shorter maintenance cycles.

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Separating Concerns with Domain Specific Languages

Cited by 4 publications

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Reverse-Engineering Reusable Language Modules from Legacy Domain-Specific Languages

Reverse-Engineering Reusable Language Modules from Legacy Domain-Specific Languages

Puzzle: A Tool for Analyzing and Extracting Specification Clones in DSLs

Preserving Aspects via Automation: A Maintainability Study

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