Предметно-ориентированный язык описания документов, используемых при проектировании информационных систем

Известия Южного федерального университета. Технические науки. 2015. № 2. С. 126–134.

Жигалова М. А., Sukhov A.

In the process of software products development and their maintenance a large number of project documents is created and used. To automate their processing and control of the product requirements referred in the documents, developing tools supporting the work of the analyst in the design of information systems is required. In order to carry out control of each type of requirements individually, it is needed to define the project document sections that describe a particular type of system requirements. To perform such analysis, tools for describing the structure of the analyzed document are required. Visual domain-specific languages can be used as these tools, allowing to perform a description of the document structure in terminology of the domain using graphical interface. The approach to creating such domain-specific language is considered. The language has two levels: the first level allows to determine the total set of documents and the relationships between them, and the second – the structure of each project document separately. The developed domain-specific language can be integrated into a system of support of analyst working in the information systems design process. On the one hand, it will allow based on a set of loaded into the system design documentation to perform their analysis and parsing, presenting each part of the documentation in the form of individual element of the model. On the other hand, using developed language the analyst can describe each part of the design documentation separately, and then generate on their basis uniform text description. The language has a simple graphical notation, therefore it can be used by as IT-specialists and clients who are not professional programmers.

Keywords: моделирование, modeling, проектная документация, предметно-ориентированные языки, DSM-platform, DSM-платформа, domain-specific languages, design documentation