Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DOORS eXtension Language (DXL)


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The result was speedy keep. Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) —  Newslinger  talk   12:19, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

DOORS eXtension Language (DXL)

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Not notable. No significant coverage from independent reliable sources. The sources cited in the article are all primary sources (IBM and Sodius company websites) and unreliable sources (Stack Overflow, which is a self-published source). Sources outside of the article are no better. —  Newslinger  talk   06:18, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 06:22, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 06:22, 28 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep (or else merge to Rational DOORS). There is independent RS mentioning this, see: ; ; ; ; SJK (talk) 10:53, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * See also Ni, D. C., Martinez, J., Eccles, J., Thomas, D., & Lai, P. K. M. (1994, December). Process automation with enumeration and traceability tools. In Industrial Technology, 1994., Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on (pp. 361-365). IEEE. Merten, T., Schäfer, T., & Bürsner, S. (2012, September). Using RE knowledge to assist automatically during requirement specification. In Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET), 2012 IEEE 7th International Workshop on (pp. 9-13). IEEE. Chicago. Rahman, A., & Amyot, D. (2014, August). A DSL for importing models in a requirements management system. In Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop (MoDRE), 2014 IEEE 4th International (pp. 37-46). IEEE. Chicago. SJK (talk) 10:58, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for providing the Dale/Anderson book. However, I don't think the rest of the books provide significant coverage of DXL. I also don't have access to the IEEE publications. If you can show that an IEEE publication (or another source) provides significant coverage of DXL, and not just as a passing mention while discussing DOORS, then I'll withdraw the nomination. —  Newslinger  talk   11:53, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * So, of the IEEE sources, the first two just mention it as an example of a requirements management system (RMS) extension language. (Although, the fact that whenever an example of such a language needs to be mentioned in the literature, almost invariably DXL, and DXL alone, is mentioned, may not be SIGCOV, but it is clear evidence of notability.) However, if you read the paper "A DSL for importing models in a requirements management system"–the topic of the paper is developing a DSL for requirements engineering which in principle could be used with any RMS. But, to practically demonstrate it, they choose to implement it with a single RMS, which is Rational DOORS. And in their actual implementation, the DSL is translated to DXL. So, rather than DXL being something they briefly mention, they mention it again and again and again, because it played a key part in the research which their paper describes. SJK (talk) 12:05, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Your description of the Rahman/Amyot paper looks good enough to me. I'll add these two sources into the article. Thanks again for your research. —  Newslinger  talk   12:19, 28 December 2018 (UTC)


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