Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are languages tailored to a specific application domain.
They offer substantial gains in expressiveness and ease of use compared with general …

Spoofax is a language workbench for efficient, agile development of textual domain-specific
languages with state-of-the-art IDE support. Spoofax integrates language processing …

Software inspection is a known technique for improving software quality. It involves carefully
examining the code, the design, and the documentation of software and checking these for …

Many automated software engineering tools require tight integration of techniques for source
code analysis and manipulation. State-of-the-art tools exist for both, but the domains have …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

Stratego/XT is a language and toolset for program transformation. The Stratego language
provides rewrite rules for expressing basic transformations, programmable rewriting …

Source model extraction, the automated extraction of information from system artifacts, is a
common phase in reverse engineering tools. One of the major challenges of this phase is …

Software systems need to evolve, and systems built using model-driven approaches are no
exception. What complicates model-driven engineering is that it requires multiple …

Abstract Domain specific languages (DSLs) are increasingly used today. Co** with
complex language definitions, evolving them in a structured way, and ensuring their error …

Grammarware comprises grammars and all grammar-dependent software. The term
grammar is meant here in the sense of all established grammar formalisms and grammar …