- Speakers
Markus Völter
- Schedule
- Friday 31 from 11:00 until 11:50
- Description
The ubiquitous language is a cornerstone of domain-driven design in that it drives the software structure of an application. In my work I go a step further and formalise the ubiquitous language into a domain-specific (programming) language that empowers subject matter experts to directly program (or configure) a software system. In both cases it is crucial to understand a domain really well in terms of the relevant abstractions and their relationships. The process of achieving this is called domain analysis.
In this session I provide concrete guidelines on how to run a successful domain analysis. I discuss practices for collecting information about the domain, for finding the right abstractions, and for validating that the language is able to cover the domain well.
The session is based on my book How to Understand Almost Anything.
About Markus Völter
Markus works as a language engineer, bridging the gap from industry and business domains to software systems. He analyses domains, designs user-friendly languages and supporting analyses, and implements language tools and IDEs, architects efficient and reliable backends based on interpreters and generators. He also works on formalisms and meta-tools for language engineering.
For 20 years, Markus has consulted, coached and developed in a wide range of industries, including finance, automotive, health, science and IT. He has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, has written several books on the subject and spoken at many industry conferences world-wide. Markus has a diploma in technical physics from FH Ravensburg-Weingarten and a PhD in computer science from TU Delft. Reach him via http://voelter.de