A system for specification and rapid prototyping of application command languages

Author

Stelovsky, Jan ; Sugaya, Hirotsugo

Author_Institution

Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

14

Issue

7

fYear

1988

fDate

7/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1023

Lastpage

1032

Abstract

The XS-2 system that integrates specification, rapid prototyping, and the actual use of application dialogs is described. The XS-2 command language grammar, a nonprocedural description language based on regular expressions, is used to specify commands for any application program. The syntax of the command specification is visible to the user: command names and their activation rules are displayed as a command tree. Since a small set of tools is provided for the development of the command specification and its automatic translation into a prototype application module in Modula-2, no programming work is necessary to design and evaluate the commands. Experience shows that an advanced end user can develop his or her own prototype application without a programmer´s assistance

Keywords

grammars; interactive systems; programming environments; software tools; user interfaces; Modula-2; XS-2 system; application command languages; application dialogs; automatic translation; command language grammar; command specification; command tree; nonprocedural description language; programming environments; rapid prototyping; regular expressions; software tools; user interfaces; Application software; Automatic programming; Command languages; Microcomputers; Operating systems; Productivity; Prototypes; Software prototyping; User interfaces; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.42742

Filename

42742