Collaboro - Community-Driven Language Development

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Community-Driven LanguageDevelopment

Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo and Jordi Cabotjavier.canovas,jordi.cabot@inria.fr

June, 2012

Outline

Motivation

Our proposal

Example

Conclusion

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Collaboration in Software Engineering

In software development

I Processes are increasingly becoming more collaborative, trying to engageusers in all development phases

I Agile methodologies, development of Free Open Source Systems...

In Domain-Specific Language development

I DSL development is usually centered on developers rather than the users

I Even if a DSL is a language specific for a domain, domain experts havevery limited participation in its creation.

I Why not making the development process for DSLs more collaborative?

The importance of the Community

Community?

Community-driven development

How to get it?

What do we need?

Infrastructure to deal with the collaborations arisen when developing/evolving alanguage

What do we propose?

A new DSL, called Collaboro, to represent proposals, solutions and commentswhich arise among the members of a language community.

What shall we get?

With Collaboro we can:

I Justify and argument about changes in Ecore models (Eclipse)

I Record the discussions and apply a voting mechanism

I Track changes

I Traceability of design decisions

Example

What does Collaboro provide?

I Track changes

Example

I Track changes

Example

I Track changes

Example

I Track changes

Example

I Track changes

Collaboro Abstract Syntax

Decision engine

The tool

Conclusion and Future Work

What have we presented?

Collaboro, a brand new DSL which:

I Allows representing change requests and solutions (and comments)

I Promotes participation and tracking language changes

More work?

I Support the collaborative development of concrete syntax

I Enable Change by example

I Complex decision algorithms

I Generation of examples to control the evolution

Check it out!http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/collaboro

Thank you!

Collaboro - Community-Driven Language Development

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