A requirements engineering approach for usability-driven DSL development

Ankica Barišić; Dominique Blouin; Vasco Amaral; Miguel Goulão

doi:10.1145/3136014.3136027

A requirements engineering approach for usability-driven DSL development

Ankica Barišić, Dominique Blouin, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão

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Abstract

There is currently a lack of Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches applied to, or supporting, the development of a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) taking into account the environment in which it is to be used. We present a modelbased RE approach to support DSL development with a focus on usability concerns. RDAL is a RE fragment language that can be complemented with other languages to support RE and design. USE-ME is a model driven approach for DSLs usability evaluation which is integrable with a DSL development approach. We combine RDAL and a new DSL, named DSSL, that we created for the specification of DSL-based systems. Integrated with this combination we add USE-ME to support usability evaluation. This combination of existing languages and tools provides a comprehensive RE approach for DSL development. We illustrate the approach with the development of the Gyro DSL for programming robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SLE 2017 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, co-located with SPLASH 2017
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	115-128
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5525-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3136014.3136027
Publication status	Published - 23 Oct 2017
Event	10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2017 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 23 Oct 2017 → 24 Oct 2017

Conference

Conference	10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2017
Country	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	23/10/17 → 24/10/17

Keywords

Domain-Specific language
Requirements engineering
Usability evaluation

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Barišić, A, Blouin, D, Amaral, V & Goulão, M 2017, A requirements engineering approach for usability-driven DSL development. in SLE 2017 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, co-located with SPLASH 2017. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 115-128, 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2017, Vancouver, Canada, 23/10/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3136014.3136027

A requirements engineering approach for usability-driven DSL development. / Barišić, Ankica; Blouin, Dominique; Amaral, Vasco ; Goulão, Miguel.

SLE 2017 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, co-located with SPLASH 2017. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. p. 115-128.

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