SGER: A Framework for Debugging Domain Specific Languages

SGER：用于调试领域特定语言的框架

• 批准号: 9985560
• 负责人: Premkumar Devanbu
• 金额: $ 5.28万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-15 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9985560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Framework; Debugging; Domain; Specific

PI's Name: Devanbu, Premkumar T. Institution: University of California, Davis.TITLE: A Framework for Debugging Domain-Specific LanguagesDomain specific languages (DSL), high-level programming languages with constructs expressing precisely the concepts of a specific application domain, can be used to implement entire applications as DSL scripts. DSLs are growing in popularity, and are proving to be an effective means of improving productivity. However, people writing applications in domain specific languages are typically without debugging support and must resort to unpleasant, primitive methods to debug their scripts. Many tools (e.g., parser-generators) support DSL implementation, but a debugger for a DSL still must be built from scratch, without tool support. This project develops a re-usable infrastructure for building DSL debuggers. By analyzing interpreter-based implementations of DSLs, a uniform, general model of the most common features of the data structures found within the run-times of interpreters is developed. The model is then used to leverage a reusable, retargetable debugging framework (comprising a GUI, command interpretation machinery, etc.) that can be added at low cost to an existing interpreter to provide debugging support.

主要研究者姓名：Devanbu，Premkumar T.机构：领域特定语言（DSL）是一种高级编程语言，其结构精确地表达了特定应用领域的概念，可用于将整个应用程序实现为DSL脚本。 DSL越来越受欢迎，并且被证明是提高生产力的有效手段。 然而，用领域特定语言编写应用程序的人通常没有调试支持，必须求助于不愉快的原始方法来调试他们的脚本。许多工具（例如，解析器-生成器）支持DSL实现，但是DSL的调试器仍然必须从头开始构建，没有工具支持。这个项目开发了一个可重用的基础设施建设DSL调试器。 通过分析基于解释器的DSL实现，开发了解释器运行时内发现的数据结构的最常见特征的统一的通用模型。 然后，该模型用于利用可重用的、可重定向的调试框架（包括GUI、命令解释机器等）。其可以以低成本添加到现有解释器以提供调试支持。