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automatically computes testing metrics, traces permit to interpret the result in terms of the
original model.
Figure 1: Idea behind the language-independent framework for testing metrics evaluation
A powerful technique for software development is the use of a specific notation for describing
domain specific solutions. Domain specific languages (DSLs) allow the representation of
information and models in a way that domain experts prefer over the use of general-purpose
notations. DSLs make domain knowledge explicit and simplify the communication between
domain and IT experts. The creation of a new language is a time consuming task, needs
experience and is thus usually carried out by specialized language engineers. However, there
exist a lot of tools which support the definition of new language even by non-IT experts and
especially users with little experience in language design. Therefore, we developed a set of
guidelines which help those users to define languages of high quality.
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