Achieving extensibility through product-lines and domain-specific languages: A case study

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-214

  Batory, Don ^a,b   Johnson, Clay ^a   Macdonald, Bob ^a   Von Heeder, Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspects; Domain specific languages; GenVoca; Refinements; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ASPECTS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGES (DSLS); GENVOCA; PRODUCT-LINE ARCHITECTURES (PLAS); REFINEMENTS;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 2942713451     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/505145.505147     Document Type: Article

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