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Bootstrapping DSLs from user interfaces

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Michaela Bačíková,

Jaroslav Porubän,

Sergej Chodarev,

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SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 2115 - 2118

https://doi.org/10.1145/2695664.2695994

Published: 13 April 2015 Publication History

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Implementation of domain-specific languages (DSLs) is supported by powerful tools that can automatically generate various artifacts from the language specification. Domain analysis and design of a language, however, are usually done manually. Automatic extraction of domain information can be used to generate preliminary version of the language specification and therefore bootstrap the development process. One of the most suitable sources of domain information are graphical user interfaces (GUIs). In this paper we present the experiment validating this approach. Several existing applications were automatically analyzed to extract their domain models and generate a DSL processor based on them.

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Bootstrapping DSLs from user interfaces
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    1. Interaction paradigms
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SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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ISBN:9781450331968

DOI:10.1145/2695664

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