A DSL for Configuration Management of Integrated Network Management System
Rosângela Pieroni, Rosângela Aparecida Dellosso Penteado · 2015
A management system of networks that takes all elements into consideration, regardless of the network technology, is one of the most emphasized requests by telecommunication companies. However, developing this system is not a trivial task. Furthermore, the software development process based on source code makes the task even more complex and requires a great effort of the developers to perform code update and maximize the reuse of software artifacts to insert a new network technology. In this paper, we propose a DSL approach to specify new network technologies into integrated network management system developed by a real company. An experiment was conducted according to all steps proposed by Wohlin (Wohlin et al., 2000) to validate our DSL approach versus specialization of classes with the purpose of increasing advantages with respect to time and number of errors inserted in the source code. Although the time spent to develop the application using the two approaches was not statistically different, all other results obtained such as code generated automatically without present errors and all comments reported by the participants regarding the ease of use of DSL, it encourages the development of new DSLs to others functions of the integrated network management system.