Section: New Results

Domain Specific Language

There is a growing interest in the research community on the definition of a new generation of language workbenches to facilitate the definition of non-trivial domain specific languages. In this area, we are working on the definition of a set of quality properties that will help language designers to validate if their language is well-adapted to the needs of the language users. This is done by mining repositories containing a corpus of examples of the language.

To begin with we have been reusing the notion of software clones [16] [30] , a well-known property in the programming domain and see if it is also meaningful for languages at the model level [29] .