Design principles for internal domain-specific languages

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Günther ◽  
Thomas Cleenewerck
Keyword(s):  
Design Principles ◽  
Domain Specific Languages ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Internal Domain

Design Patterns and Design Principles for Internal Domain-Specific Languages

2012 ◽  
pp. 156-214
Author(s):  
Sebastian Günther
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Domain Specific Languages ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Language Semantics ◽  
Internal Domain ◽  
Design Challenges

Internal DSLs are a special kind of DSLs that use an existing programming language as their host. To build them successfully, knowledge regarding how to modify the host language is essential. In this chapter, the author contributes six DSL design principles and 21 DSL design patterns. DSL Design principles provide guidelines that identify specific design goals to shape the syntax and semantic of a DSL. DSL design patterns express proven knowledge about recurring DSL design challenges, their solution, and their connection to each other – forming a rich vocabulary that developers can use to explain a DSL design and share their knowledge. The chapter presents design patterns grouped into foundation patterns (which provide the skeleton of the DSL consisting of objects and methods), notation patterns (which address syntactic variations of host language expressions), and abstraction patterns (which provide the domain-specific abstractions as extensions or even modifications of the host language semantics).

scholarly journals Design Patterns and Design Principles for Internal Domain-Specific Languages

2014 ◽  
pp. 352-410
Author(s):  
Sebastian Günther
Keyword(s):  
Programming Language ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Domain Specific Languages ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Language Semantics ◽  
Internal Domain ◽  
Design Challenges

Internal DSLs are a special kind of DSLs that use an existing programming language as their host. To build them successfully, knowledge regarding how to modify the host language is essential. In this chapter, the author contributes six DSL design principles and 21 DSL design patterns. DSL Design principles provide guidelines that identify specific design goals to shape the syntax and semantic of a DSL. DSL design patterns express proven knowledge about recurring DSL design challenges, their solution, and their connection to each other – forming a rich vocabulary that developers can use to explain a DSL design and share their knowledge. The chapter presents design patterns grouped into foundation patterns (which provide the skeleton of the DSL consisting of objects and methods), notation patterns (which address syntactic variations of host language expressions), and abstraction patterns (which provide the domain-specific abstractions as extensions or even modifications of the host language semantics).

scholarly journals Defining DSL design principles for enhancing the requirements elicitation process

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
J. Guadalupe Ramos-Díaz ◽  
Isela Navarro ◽  
Josep Silva ◽  
Gustavo Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Domain Specific Languages ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Elicitation Process ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Software Development

Requirements elicitation is concerned with learning and understanding the needs of users w.r.t. a new software development. Frequently the methods employed for requirements elicitation are adapted from areas like social sciences that do not include executable (prototype based on) feedback. As a consequence, it is relatively common to discover that the first release does not fit the requirements defined at the beginning of the project. Using domain-specific languages (DSLs) as an auxiliary tool for requirements elicitation is a commonly well accepted idea. Unfortunately, there are few works in the literature devoted to the definition of design principles for DSLs to be experienced in the frameworks for DSL developing such as ANTLR, Ruby, and Curry. We propose design principles for the DSL development (regardless of paradigm) which are sufficient to model the domain in a requirements phase. Further more we enunciate a new profile for the requirements analyst and a set of elicitation steps. The use of DSLs not only giveus an immediate feedback with the stake holders; it also allows us to produce part of the real code.

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