Print Email Facebook Twitter Domain-Specific Languages in Practice: A User Study on the Success Factors Title Domain-Specific Languages in Practice: A User Study on the Success Factors Author Hermans, F. Pinzger, M. Van Deursen, A. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Software Computer Technology Date 2009-12-31 Abstract Domain specific languages (DSLs) are languages in which the properties of a specific domain can be expressed. In this paper we present an empirical study on the use of a DSL in industry. This DSL encapsulates the details of services that communicate using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). From definitions of the data contracts between clients and servers, WCF/C# code for service plumbing is generated. We conducted a survey amongst developers that use this DSL while developing applications for customers. The DSL has been used in about 30 projects all around the world. We describe the known success factors of the use of DSLs, such as improved maintainability and ease of re-use, and assert how well this DSL scores on all of them. The analysis of the results of this case study also shows which conditions should be fulfilled in order to increase the chances of success in using a DSL in a real life case. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3fa3ccb0-30b9-4a37-8021-7288e35b85ae Publisher Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group ISSN 1872-5392 Source Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2009-013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2009 by the authors of this report. Software Engineering Research Group, Department ofSoftware Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology. All rights reserved. No part of this series may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written permission of the authors. Files PDF TUD-SERG-2009-013.pdf 231.89 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3fa3ccb0-30b9-4a37-8021-7288e35b85ae/datastream/OBJ/view