SLE 2013 paper:
The State of the Art in Language Workbenches: Conclusions from the Language Workbench Challenge

Sebastian Erdweg, Tijs van der Storm, Markus Völter, Meinte Boersma, Remi Bosman, William R. Cook, Albert Gerritsen, Angelo Hulshout, Steven Kelly, Alex Loh, Gabriël Konat, Pedro J. Molina, Martin Palatnik, Risto Pohjonen, Eugen Schindler, Klemens Schindler, Riccardo Solmi, Vlad Vergu, Eelco Visser, Kevin van der Vlist, Guido Wachsmuth, Jimi van der Woning

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02654-1_11
Original shorter version of Evaluating and comparing language workbenches: Existing results and benchmarks for the future (SLE 2014 SI)
T4A: Workbenches
- The paper’s primary focus is language workbenches—their capabilities, trade-offs, and tool support for implementing languages.
T5E: Empirical Evaluation
- It synthesises evidence from repeated challenge tasks used to compare workbenches, providing an empirical/comparative perspective.
T6D: Synergies
- The Language Workbench Challenge explicitly creates a cross-tool community forum, emphasising synergies and shared evaluation criteria.

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