Development of a Semantics-aware Editor for TTCN-3 as an Eclipse Plug-in

This thesis describes the process of extending a given parser for the TTCN-3 language by the ability to perform a basic semantic analysis on a given file and integrating it into a plug-in for the eclipse platform. It deals with the principles of parsing and semantic checking as well as showing the basic concept of developing a dedicated editor for a formal language. The integration of the parser into the eclipse platform and strategy of verifying variable assignments are presented in detail. Among others, the plug-in features syntactic highlighting, the annotation of errors in TTCN-3 and the validation of variable assignments including nested expressions.