Migrating Business Logic to an Incremental Computing DSL

Migrating Business Logic to an Incremental Computing DSL: A Case Study

Harkes, D.C. (TU Delft Programming Languages)
van Chastelet, E. (TU Delft Programming Languages)
Visser, Eelco (TU Delft Programming Languages)

Pearce, D. (editor)
Friedrich, S. (editor)
Mayerhofer, T. (editor)

2018

To provide empirical evidence to what extent migration of business logic to an incremental computing language (ICL) is useful, we report on a case study on a learning management system. Our contribution is to analyze a real-life project, how migrating business logic to an ICL affects information system validatability, performance, and development effort.
We find that the migrated code has better validatability; it is straightforward to establish that a program ‘does the right thing’. Moreover, the performance is better than the previous hand-written incremental computing solution. The effort spent on modeling business logic is reduced, but integrating that logic in the application and tuning performance takes considerable effort. Thus, the ICL separates the concerns of business logic and performance, but does not reduce effort.

Domain-Specific Languages
Incremental Computing
Information Systems

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:80a20691-57ab-4456-a83e-19d8600906f5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3276604.3276617

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY

978-1-4503-6029-6

SLE 2018 - Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering

SLE 2018, 2018-11-05 → 2018-11-06, Boston, United States

Accepted Author Manuscript

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2018 D.C. Harkes, E. van Chastelet, Eelco Visser