Migrating Business Logic to an Incremental Computing DSL
A Case Study
Daco C. Harkes (TU Delft - Programming Languages)
Elmer van Chastelet (TU Delft - Programming Languages)
Eelco Visser (TU Delft - Programming Languages)
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Abstract
To provide empirical evidence to what extent migration of business logic to an incremental computing language (ICL) is useful, we report on a case study on a learning management system. Our contribution is to analyze a real-life project, how migrating business logic to an ICL affects information system validatability, performance, and development effort.
We find that the migrated code has better validatability; it is straightforward to establish that a program ‘does the right thing’. Moreover, the performance is better than the previous hand-written incremental computing solution. The effort spent on modeling business logic is reduced, but integrating that logic in the application and tuning performance takes considerable effort. Thus, the ICL separates the concerns of business logic and performance, but does not reduce effort.