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Syntax Map: A Modeling Language for Capturing Requirements of Graphical DSML


Abstract:

Domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) are designed to model particular domains of interest using graphical, textual, or mixed syntax. Although most metamodeling tool...Show More

Abstract:

Domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) are designed to model particular domains of interest using graphical, textual, or mixed syntax. Although most metamodeling tools offer an environment that automates several language development tasks, there is still a lack of support for aiding the domain expert to capture the requirements of a graphical DSML. We introduce the Syntax Map as an approach to address the challenges of graphical DSML requirements specification. It is designed to aid domain experts in describing a first-class graphical DSML requirement using a set of graphical notations. In addition, the Syntax Map can be used to generate a metamodel by means of model transformations. This short paper motivates the need for the Syntax Map, provides several brief examples, and discusses lessons learned in our investigation of this approach.
Date of Conference: 04-07 December 2012
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 18 February 2013
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Conference Location: Hong Kong, China
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I. Introduction

The emergence of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and General-Purpose Modeling languages (GPMLs), such as the UML, have assisted software engineers in raising the level of abstraction in their designs. In addition, software engineers are able to generate implementations automatically from models by combining model transformation and source code generation techniques. Although GPMLs offer several benefits (e.g., productivity improvement, better portability, and quality improvement), one of the drawbacks of using a GPML is the investment of time and effort needed to learn a large set of GPML constructs, which may not be relevant or needed for a specific problem domain and may be too challenging to use for end-users who are not computer scientists.

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