A Reference Structure for Metamodels of Quality-Aware Domain-Specific Languages

As domain-specific languages (DSLs) gain popularity, there arise issues concerning the maintainability of long-living DSLs. Like any other software artifact, DSLs are evolved over time. Modification and repeated addition of new features may severely degrade their once well designed structure. DSLs which are used for the analysis of quality attributes share certain characteristics. In this extended abstract, we outline our work which aims to exploit these commonalities to improve the maintainability of such DSLs.