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A Design Pattern for Executable DSML

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Model executability is now a key concern in model-driven engineering, mainly to support early validation and verification (V&V). Some approaches have allowed to weave executability into metamodels, defining executable domain-specific modeling languages (DSML). Then, model validation may be achieved by direct interpretation of the conforming models. Other approaches address model executability by model compilation, allowing to reuse the virtual machines or V&V tools existing in the target domain. Nevertheless, systematic methods are not available to help the language designer in the definition of such an execution semantics and related support tools. For instance, simulators are mostly hand-crafted in a tool specific manner for each DSML. In this paper, we propose to reify the elements commonly used to support execution in a DSML. We infer a design pattern (called Executable DSML pattern) providing a general reusable solution for the expression of the executability concerns in DSML. It favors flexibility and improves reusability in the definition of semantics-based tools for DSML. We illustrate how this pattern can be applied to V&V and models at runtime, and give insights on the development of generic and generative tools for model animators.
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inria-00540648 , version 1 (29-11-2010)
inria-00540648 , version 2 (09-09-2012)
inria-00540648 , version 3 (10-09-2012)

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Benoit Combemale, Xavier Crégut, Marc Pantel. A Design Pattern for Executable DSML. [Research Report] RR-8063, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique. 2012, pp.19. ⟨inria-00540648v3⟩
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