Measurement-Domain Specific Language for magnetic test specifications at CERN

Author

Arpaia, P. ; Buzio, Marco ; Fiscarelli, L. ; Inglese, Vitaliano ; La Commara, Giuseppe ; Walckiers, L.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing., Univ. del Sannio, Benevento, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

5-7 May 2009

Firstpage

1716

Lastpage

1720

Abstract

A Measurement-Domain Specific Language (MDSL) for test procedure definition, measurement tasks synchronization, and instrument configuration is proposed. MDSL is a formal language specially designed for a specific domain of measurement and test, aimed at specifying complete, easy-to-understand, -reuse, and -maintain applications efficiently and quickly. Owing to MDSL constructs capability of abstracting key concepts of the domain, the test engineer can write more concise and higher level programs in shorter time without being a skilled programmer. The MDSL has been applied to the specifications of superconducting magnet tests of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Keywords

automatic test equipment; high level languages; magnetic variables measurement; program testing; software maintenance; software reusability; specification languages; superconducting magnets; CERN; Large Hadron Collider; automatic test equipment; high level program; magnetic variable measurement; measurement-domain specific language; superconducting magnetic test specification; Application software; Area measurement; DSL; Instruments; Large Hadron Collider; Programming profession; Software reusability; Software safety; Software testing; Superconducting magnets; automatic test equipment; component; magnetic variables measurement; measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2009. I2MTC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3352-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168733

Filename

5168733