<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barišić, Ankica</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amaral, Vasco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Goulão, Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barroca, Bruno</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mernik, Marjan</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Evaluating the Usability of Domain-Specific Languages</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Formal and Practical Aspects of Domain-Specific Languages: Recent Developments</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.igi-global.com/book/formal-practical-aspects-domain-specific/66388</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IGI Global</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;We can regard Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) as User Interfaces (UIs) because they bridge the gap&lt;br /&gt;
between the domain experts and the computation platforms. Usability of DSLs by domain experts is a key&lt;br /&gt;
factor for their successful adoption. The few reports supporting improvement claims are persuasive, but&lt;br /&gt;
mostly anecdotal. Systematic literature reviews show that evidences on the effects of the introduction of&lt;br /&gt;
DSLs are actually very scarce. In particular, the  evaluation of usability is often skipped, relaxed, or at&lt;br /&gt;
least omitted from papers reporting the development of DSLs. The few exceptions mostly take place at&lt;br /&gt;
the end of the development process, when fixing  problems is  already  too expensive. A systematic&lt;br /&gt;
approach, based on techniques for the experimental evaluation of UIs, should be used to assess suitability&lt;br /&gt;
of new DSLs. This chapter presents a general experimental evaluation model, tailored for DSLs’&lt;br /&gt;
experimental evaluation, and instantiates it in several DSL’s evaluation examples.&lt;/p&gt;
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