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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada
Mon 23 Oct 2017 14:25 - 14:45 at Regency D - Language, DSL, and Feature Design Chair(s): Joshua Sunshine

Software development involves iterations of writing, running, testing, and debugging code. When fixing a defect, developers construct a mental model of the system that explains the defect and eventually identifies its cause. However, filtering complete, coherent, and reliable information from a running system is not an easy task: Using a simple approach, like generic logging, is often ineffective because it deconstructs and flattens the state into textual data, thus requiring ad-hoc understanding and processing. On the other hand, collecting structured information in form of objects to observe and understand a precise property of the system requires specialized ad-hoc code, decoupled from the system’s domain, and usually not reusable.

We present ShoreLine, a domain-specific data collection framework that enables the developers to extract selected information about a running system. The developer is able to take a snapshot of all the information deemed relevant about a piece of code by writing few lines of code, thus enabling structured and effective logging and reporting of errors. We detail our framework in the context of a bug reporting platform, and illustrate how such an approach can be used to create in-depth and reliable domain-specific bug reports.

Mon 23 Oct

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13:30 - 15:00
Language, DSL, and Feature DesignPLATEAU at Regency D
Chair(s): Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University
13:30
20m
Talk
A User Study to Inform the Design of the Obsidian Blockchain DSL
PLATEAU
Celeste Barnaby Wesleyan University, Michael Coblenz Carnegie Mellon University, Tyler Etzel , Eliezer Kanal Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Sunshine Carnegie Mellon University, Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University, Jonathan Aldrich Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
13:50
15m
Talk
Programming Robot Manipulators with Tangible Blocks
PLATEAU
Yasaman Sefidgar University of Washington, Maya Cakmak University of Washington
Pre-print
14:05
20m
Talk
Preliminary Analysis of REST API Style Guidelines
PLATEAU
Lauren Murphy University of Michigan, Tosin Alliyu Haverford College, Mary Beth Kery Carnegie Mellon University, Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
14:25
20m
Talk
Sympathy for the Devil: Reified Collection of Runtime Errors
PLATEAU
Tommaso Dal Sasso Università della Svizzera Italiana, Andrei Chiş feenk, Switzerland, Andrea Mocci Universita della Svizzera italiana (USI), Tudor Gîrba CompuGroup Medical Schweiz AG, Michele Lanza Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
Pre-print
14:45
15m
Talk
Preventing Babel: Rectifying the Trend of Programming Language Divergence
PLATEAU
Alon Amid UC Berkeley, Borivoje Nikolic UC Berkeley
Pre-print