sle2017/paper10

SLE 2017 paper:
Towards a Taxonomy of Grammar Smells

Mats Stijlaart, Vadim Zaytsev

• DOI: 10.1145/3136014.3136035
• T5B: Language Description Analysis
  • It proposes a taxonomy of grammar smells, i.e., systematic analysis of grammar/language descriptions.
• T2B: Evolution
  • Grammar smells are motivated by grammar refactoring and maintenance of evolving language definitions.
• T3A: Meta-languages
  • The objects analysed are grammars, which are meta-language artifacts used to define syntax.
• T4A: Workbenches
  • A taxonomy supports building analysis/refactoring tools for grammars, which the paper discusses as a motivation.

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