Experience report: Studying the readability of a domain specific language

Johann Thor Mogensen Ingibergsson; Stefan Hanenberg; Joshua Sunshine; Ulrik Pagh Schultz

doi:10.1145/3167132.3167436

Experience report: Studying the readability of a domain specific language

Johann Thor Mogensen Ingibergsson, Stefan Hanenberg, Joshua Sunshine, Ulrik Pagh Schultz

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Abstract

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are commonly expected to improve communication with domain experts compared to general-purpose programming languages (GPLs). However, there is a huge gap in the literature concerning how evidence can be given for this expected improvement - -a phenomenon that is not only known from DSLs, but also from GPLs in general. This paper presents an experience report of applying an iterative process for evaluating DSL readability for a given DSL in the context of safety-critical software in robotics. The goal of this process is to conduct a randomized controlled trial that gives evidence for the better readability of the DSL in comparison to the readability of a GPL. In this experience report, we describe common pitfalls we identified and possible solutions to overcome these problems in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Volume	Part F137816
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2018
Pages	2030-2033
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450351911
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3167132.3167436
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2018 - Pau, France Duration: 9. Apr 2018 → 13. Apr 2018

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Conference	33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2018
Country/Territory	France
City	Pau
Period	09/04/2018 → 13/04/2018
Sponsor	ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)

Keywords

Computer vision
DSL
Functional safety
Readability
Safety

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Ingibergsson, JTM, Hanenberg, S, Sunshine, J & Schultz, UP 2018, Experience report: Studying the readability of a domain specific language. in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. vol. Part F137816, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2030-2033, 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2018, Pau, France, 09/04/2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3167132.3167436

Experience report: Studying the readability of a domain specific language. / Ingibergsson, Johann Thor Mogensen; Hanenberg, Stefan; Sunshine, Joshua et al.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Vol. Part F137816 Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 2030-2033.

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