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Concrete syntax-based find for graphical DSLs

Elina Kalnina

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Domain-specific languageService (systems architecture)Computer sciencebusiness.industryProgramming language020207 software engineering02 engineering and technologyActivity diagramcomputer.software_genreDigital subscriber lineSoftwareDeterministic finite automatonUnified Modeling Language0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringState (computer science)businesscomputercomputer.programming_language

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There are services available in the most software tools we have got used to like, copy, paste, cut, find, and replace. However, the state of the art is not so good with tools of graphical languages. Even many commercial modelling tools have limited support of the find feature. We propose to add find as a service of graphical DSL tool development frameworks. This way find is available in any DSL built using the DSL tool development framework. The concrete syntax-based find has been implemented as a service of the DSL tool development framework ajoo. Two graph-based languages: UML Activity diagrams and Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA) transition diagrams are used to demonstrate usage of the concrete syntax-based find.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-10-16Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings
https://doi.org/10.1145/3417990.3422008