QReal DSM platform - An Environment for Creation of Specific Visual IDEs

Anastasiia Kuzenkova, Anna Deripaska, Timofey Bryksin, Yurii Litvinov, Vladimir Polyakov

2013

Abstract

This article describes a technology for rapid creation of domain-specific languages called QReal. Domain-specific modelling is promising new paradigm, as it provides a serious boost to productivity of developers (3 to 10 times in some cases, compared to common development methodologies), so support tools for it are worth studying. QReal is a research project and a prototype of such tool to support domain-specific modelling. Overview of QReal basic metamodelling capabilities, like abstract and concrete syntax definition, is given, some advanced capabilities like defining semantics of visual language, constraints and refactoring support are described. Two cases of successful use of this technology to create domain-specific solutions are presented, some promising future work directions are given.

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Kuzenkova A., Deripaska A., Bryksin T., Litvinov Y. and Polyakov V. (2013). QReal DSM platform - An Environment for Creation of Specific Visual IDEs . 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 205-211. DOI: 10.5220/0004505002050211


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@conference{enase13,
author={Anastasiia Kuzenkova and Anna Deripaska and Timofey Bryksin and Yurii Litvinov and Vladimir Polyakov},
title={QReal DSM platform - An Environment for Creation of Specific Visual IDEs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2013},
pages={205-211},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004505002050211},
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 - QReal DSM platform - An Environment for Creation of Specific Visual IDEs
SN - 978-989-8565-62-4
AU - Kuzenkova A.
AU - Deripaska A.
AU - Bryksin T.
AU - Litvinov Y.
AU - Polyakov V.
PY - 2013
SP - 205
EP - 211
DO - 10.5220/0004505002050211