Towards a Systematic Method for Developing Meta Attack Language Instances

• Successfully developing domain-specific languages (DSLs) demands language engineers to consider their organizational context, which is challenging. Action design research (ADR) provides a conceptual framework to address this challenge. Since ADR’s application to the engineering of DSLs has not yet been examined, we investigate applying it to the development of threat modeling DSLs based on the Meta Attack Language (MAL), a metamodeling language for the specification of domain-specific threat modeling languages. To this end, we conducted a survey with experienced MAL developers on their development activities. We extract guidelines and align these, together with established DSL design guidelines, to the conceptual model of ADR. The research presented, aims to be the first step to investigate whether ADR can be used to systematically engineer DSLs.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Språkteknologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Language Technology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Action design research (ADR)

Domain specific language (DSL)

Language engineering

Digital subscriber lines

Modeling languages

Action design research

Conceptual frameworks

Design research

Domain specific language

Domains specific languages

Metamodeling

Organizational context

Systematic method

Threat modeling

Problem oriented languages

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