Language Family Engineering with Features and Role-Based Composition

Date

Mar 16, 2012

Time

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Speaker

Dipl.-Inf. Christian Wende

Affiliation

Institut für Software- und Multimediatechnik, Lehrstuhl für Softwaretechnologie

Language

en

Main Topic

Informatik

Other Topics

Informatik

Description

The benefits of domain-specific languages wrt. efficiency and quality in software engineering increase the demand for custom languages and the need for efficient methods for language engineering. This motivated the introduction of language families that aim at reducing the development costs and the maintenance effort for custom languages. Their basic idea is to exploit the commonalities and to provide means to enable systematic variation among a set of related languages. Current techniques and methodologies for language engineering are not prepared to deal with the particular challenges of language families. First, language engineering methodologies lack means for a systematic analysis, specification, and management of variability as found in language families. Second, technical approaches for a specification and realisation of languages suffer from insufficient modularity properties. In this talk, we present a comprehensive approach to language family engineering (LFE). It comprises a feature-based methodology for variability- and reuse-oriented LFE and a technique for integrative, role-based language composition to provide enhanced modularity properties for language syntax and semantics. We present the contributions of our approach and discuss its evaluation in different case studies.

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