Section: New Results

Collaborative development

In the field of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs), we have focused on the improvement of the DSLs definition process. When developing DSMLs, the participation of end-users is normally limited to providing domain knowledge and testing the resulting language prototypes. Language developers, which are perhaps not domain experts, are therefore in control of the language development and evolution. This may cause misinterpretations which hamper the development process and the quality of the DSML. Thus, it would be beneficial to promote a more active participation of end-users in the development process of DSMLs. While current DSML workbenches are mono-user and designed for technical experts, we have presented a process and tool support for the example-driven, collaborative construction of DSMLs based on Collaboro in order to engage end-users in the creation of their own languages [23] , [24] .