About the GSD Lab

Generative software development aims at modeling and implementing system families such that a desired system can be automatically generated from a specification written in one or more textual or graphical domain-specific languages.

Recent News

"Generating Range Fixes for Software Configuration" accepted at ICSE'12
by Xiong, Yingfei on January 26, 2012

Based on our survey, solving configuration errors and activating inactive features are two main challenges faced by today's configurator users. This paper proposes a new concept, range fixes, to assist users dealing with the two challenges. A technical report version of the paper can be found here.
Domain Concept Modeling Using Clafer - Tutorial (v. 9.1)
by Michal Antkiewicz on January 24, 2012

This tutorial (attached) introduces domain concept modeling using Clafer. The tutorial explains concept modeling using well-known document and slide structuring metaphors, easy to understand examples, and then it introduces Clafer a bit more precisely. The tutorial also contains an exercise: modeling of the concept Book and a reference solution. We recommend working with the tutorial in the following way:
Clafer News
by Kacper Bąk on December 20, 2011

We have been working very intensively on Clafer in the last couple of months.
The Clafer translator got updated to version 0.1, which brought a few extensions to the language and changes to syntax. If you play with the online translator, you will notice that the translator can output models in several new formats:

  • XML format with intermediate representation (IR) of the model. IR allows to combine the Clafer translator with other tools that further process Clafer models.
"A User Survey of Configuration Challenges in Linux and eCos" accepted at VaMoS'12
by Xiong, Yingfei on December 15, 2011

This paper summarizes our findings in our online survey about configuration challenges.
Report "Configuration Challenges in Linux and eCos: A Survey" published
by Xiong, Yingfei on October 7, 2011

We have conducted an online survey about what challenges are faced by the users of modern configuration tools. The result was published here as a technical report.
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Everyone in our lab is free to work on what they want to work on. Encouragement and constructive feed back is always available.

Rehan Rauf

People in the lab are very enthusiastic about what they do. The environment is very stimulating and soon you realize that most of the limits are those in your head.

Kacper Bąk