ESEML — Empirical Software Engineering Modeling Language

New processes, patterns, structures, tools, languages, and practices are being proposed for software development, but technology transfer is hard to achieve. One of the objec-tives of empirical studies is easing technology transfer from academy to industry. On the other hand, there are a num-ber of issues that hinder the application of empirical studies, more specifically, controlled experiments. This paper defines a visual DSL for modeling controlled experiments support-ing researchers that are not experts in such study. By using the language, the researcher is guided to define the elements of an experimental plan and connections, which is automat-ically generated, resulting a complete document of experi-mental plan. The proposed environment assists the defini-tion of controlled experiments, increasing empirical evalu-ation of the proposed technologies. More specifically, the current version of our proposal generates the experimental plan from the experiment model defined using the DSL. 1