Renaming for Everyone: Language-parametric Renaming in Spoofax

A refactoring is a program transformation that improves the design of the source code, while preserving its behavior. Most modern IDEs offer a number of automated refactorings as editor services. The Rename refactoring is the most-commonly applied refactoring and is used to change the identifier of a program entity such as a variable, a function...

Declaratively Defining Domain-Specific Language Debuggers

Tool support is vital to the effectiveness of domain-specific languages. With language workbenches, domain-specific languages and their tool support can be generated from a combined, high-level specification. This thesis shows how such a specification can be extended to describe a debugger for a language. To realize this, we introduce a meta...

Declarative specification of template-based textual editors

Syntax discoverability has been a crucial advantage of structure editors for new users of a language. Despite this advantage, structure editors have not been widely adopted. Nevertheless, the Cheetah system, developed at Capgemini, leverages a structure editor to aid domain experts modeling tax-benefit rules in a domain specific language. The...