Software development is a demanding process, since it involves different
parties to perform a desired task. The same case applies to the development
of measurement systems - measurement system producers often provide
interfaces to their products, after which the customers? programming
engineers use them to build software according to the instructions and
requirements of domain experts from the field of data acquisition. Until
recently, the customers of the measurement system DEWESoft were building
measuring applications, using prefabricated DCOM objects. However, a
significant amount of interaction between customers? programming engineers
and measurement system producers is necessary to use DCOM objects. Therefore,
a domain-specific modeling language has been developed to enable domain
experts to program or model their own measurement procedures without
interacting with programming engineers. In this paper, experiences gained
during the shift from using the DEWESoft product as a programming library to
domain-specific modeling language are provided together with the details of a
Sequencer, a domain-specific modeling language for the construction of
measurement procedures.
Accelerating Test Automation through a Domain Specific Language
