Paper Cost Effective Maintenance Toolsfor Proprietary Languages

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Abstract

Maintenance of proprietary languages and corresponding tooling is expensive. Postponing maintenance to reduce these costs is an often applied, short-term solution which eventually may lead to an unoperational toolset. This paper describes a case study carried out in cooperation with Lucent Technologies where maintenance cost is decreased by simplifying the development process of languages and tools. The development process is simplified by using a language-centered software engineering approach which increases software reuse and language dependent code generation. The case study was concerned with Lucent's proprietary SDL dialect and involved the re-engineering of an SDL grammar and the construction of an SDL documentation generator.

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• SlidesICSM01CostEffectiveMaintenanceToolsForProprietaryLanguages
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• SlidesCostEffectiveMaintenanceToolsForProprietaryLanguages

BibTeX

@InProceedings{JM2001,
  author       = "Merijn de Jonge and Ramin Monajemi",
  title        = "Cost-Effective Maintenance Tools for Proprietary Languages",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings; {IEEE} International Conference on
                 Software Maintenance (ICSM 2001)",
  year         = 2001,
  publisher    = "IEEE Computer Society Press",
  pages        = "240--249",
  month        = nov
}

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