Proposing a community-aware language development process where all community members (both developers and end-users of the DSL) participate: voting and discussing proposals, solutions and decisions.

1. Enabling the Collaborative
Definition of DSMLs
Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
{javier.canovas,jordi.cabot}@inria.fr
CAiSE Conference
Valencia

2. Wait!
Let’s make the
presentation more
interesting
Let’s play…
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3. http://badpresentationbingo.com

4. Collaboration in
Sofware Engineering
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7. Collaboration in
DSML development
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10. No support for DSMLs

13. what do we need?
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14. Participation
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15. Participation
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Providing means to
discuss about language
elements
Overcoming technical
barriers

16. Collaboration
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17. Collaboration
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Fostering end-user
discussion
Facilitating voting
processes
Suitable environment

18. Example
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19. Abstract Syntax
Concrete Syntax

28. Participation Collaboration

29. Participation CollaborationTraceability

30. flickr/Tsahi Levent-Levi
What do we
propose to
get this?

31. Collaboration DSML DefinitionDecision
Collaboro Process

32. Collaboration DSML DefinitionDecision

33. Collaboration DSML DefinitionDecision

34. Collaboration DSML DefinitionDecision

35. Collaboration DSML DefinitionDecision

36. Environment

37. Environment

38. Not enough…
• End-users are required to express changes at high-level of abstraction
• Solution: Example-driven collaboration
Engagement is limited
• How to adapt the collaboration protocol?
• Solution: Mechanism to define a democratic process
Collaboration strategies
• What happens with semantics?
• Solution: Mechanisms to make easier the discussion about semantics
Semantics
• What is exactly a good notation?
• Need of experimentation on this field
Good notations

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