Demonstration of a Domain-Specific Language Debugging Framework

This demonstration presents a debugging framework that targets domain-specific languages (DSLs). The DSL Debugging Framework (DDF) generates debuggers automatically from DSL grammar specifications. The debugging concern is weaved into a base grammar in an aspect-oriented style. DDF was used to generate debuggers for three different types of DSLs (imperative, declarative, and hybrid) that are translated into a General Purpose Language (GPL), such as Java. The demonstration will show how debugging concerns are weaved into the base grammar of a hybrid DSL to generate a debugger. The generated debugger will be demonstrated on a DSL for describing GUIs.