Principles and Patterns of JastAdd-Style Reference Attribute Grammars

Niklas Fors; Emma Söderberg; Görel Hedin

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Principles and Patterns of JastAdd-Style Reference Attribute Grammars

Niklas Fors, Emma Söderberg, Görel Hedin

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Reference attribute grammars (RAGs) have reached a level of maturity where they are supported by several tools, and have gained traction in both academic and industrial language tool development. However, despite a lot of accumulated knowledge of how to best develop RAGs in practice, there is limited support to guide practitioners.
In this paper, we address this issue by focusing on one RAG tool, JastAdd, and by defining principles and patterns for development of RAGs with this tool. We evaluate the proposed principles and patterns with an exploratory empirical study with 14 practitioners, with a mix of beginners and experienced users from both academia and industry. The results indicate that the principles and patterns capture the practice of developing JastAdd RAGs well, help practitioners to become aware of useful patterns, and provide a common language to more efficiently reason about the practice of developing JastAdd RAGs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2020)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	86-100
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-8176-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3426425.3426934
Publication status	Published - 2020 Nov
Event	The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering - Online Duration: 2020 Nov 15 → 2020 Nov 17

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Conference	The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering
Period	2020/11/15 → 2020/11/17

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reference attribute grammars
semantic specification
patterns

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SMARTY: Säkra mjukvaruuppdateringar för den smarta staden
Hell, M. (PI), Magnusson, B. (PI), Gehrmann, C. (CoI), Paladi, N. (Researcher), Karlsson, L. (Researcher), Sönnerup, J. (Researcher), Johnsson, B. A. (Researcher), Hedin, G. (Researcher), Nordahl, M. (Researcher), Pagnin, E. (Researcher), Kundu, R. (Researcher), Åkesson, A. (Researcher), Stankovski Wagner, P. (Researcher) & Ramezanian, S. (Researcher)
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF
2018/03/01 → 2024/12/31
Project: Research
Bloqqi - ett öppet modulärt automationsspråk
Hedin, G. (PI), Fors, N. (Researcher) & Andersson, C. (Administrator)
Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems (Vinnova)
2017/09/01 → 2020/08/31
Project: Research

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Fors, N , Söderberg, E & Hedin, G 2020, Principles and Patterns of JastAdd-Style Reference Attribute Grammars. in Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2020). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 86-100, The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, 2020/11/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3426425.3426934

Principles and Patterns of JastAdd-Style Reference Attribute Grammars. / Fors, Niklas ; Söderberg, Emma ; Hedin, Görel.
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2020). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 86-100.

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