Involving End-users in Domain-Specific Languages Development - Experiences from a Bioinformatics SME

Maria Jose Villanueva, Francisco Valverde, Oscar Pastor

2013

Abstract

Involving end-users in software development is a goal envisioned by the Software Engineering community. As they have the domain knowledge, it is feasible to develop software applications that really fulfil their requirements. Domain-specific languages (DSL) are widely applied to accomplish this vision. However, end-users collaboration in DSL development is also important to ensure that their needs are well understood and represented. This research work proposes a DSL development process that combines methodological guidelines for DSL development with good practices from agile methods to encourage end-user involvement. In this paper, we overview the complete process and we focus on the two first stages: Decision and Analysis. In order to illustrate the proposal, it is applied in the development of a DSL for a bioinformatics SME that works on genetic disease diagnosis.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Villanueva M., Valverde F. and Pastor O. (2013). Involving End-users in Domain-Specific Languages Development - Experiences from a Bioinformatics SME . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-62-4, pages 97-108. DOI: 10.5220/0004450000970108

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase13,
author={Maria Jose Villanueva and Francisco Valverde and Oscar Pastor},
title={Involving End-users in Domain-Specific Languages Development - Experiences from a Bioinformatics SME},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2013},
pages={97-108},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004450000970108},
isbn={978-989-8565-62-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Involving End-users in Domain-Specific Languages Development - Experiences from a Bioinformatics SME
SN - 978-989-8565-62-4
AU - Villanueva M.
AU - Valverde F.
AU - Pastor O.
PY - 2013
SP - 97
EP - 108
DO - 10.5220/0004450000970108