Benoît Combemale, Laure Gonnord, Vlad Rusu. A Generic Tool for Tracing Executions Back to a DSML s Operational Semantics. In Robert B. France, Jochen Malte Kuester, Behzad Bordbar, Richard F. Paige, editors, Modelling Foundations and Applications - 7th European Conference, ECMFA 2011, Birmingham, UK, June 6 - 9, 2011 Proceedings. Volume 6698 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 35-51, Springer, 2011. [doi]
The increasing complexity of software development requires rigorously defined domain specific modeling languages (DSML). Model-driven engineering (\mde) allows users to define a DSML’s syntax in terms of metamodels. The behaviour of a language can also be described, either operationally, or via transformations to other languages (e.g., by code generation). If the first approach requires to redefine analysis tools for each DSML (simulator, model-checker…), the second approach allows to reuse existing tools in the targeted language. However, the second approach (also called translational semantics) imply that the results (e.g., a program crash log, or a counterexample returned by a model checker) may not be straightforward to interpret by the users of a DSML. We propose in this paper a generic tool for formally tracing such analysis/execution results back to the original DSML’s syntax and operational semantics, and we illustrate it on xSPEM, a timed process modeling language.
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