Surveying rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages

M. Wimmer, G. Kappel, A. Kusel, W. Retschitzegger, J. Schönböck, W. Schwinger, D. Kolovos, R. Paige, M. Lauder, A. Schürr, D. Wagelaar

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Abstract

Model transformations play a significant role in Model-Driven Engineering. However, their reuse mechanisms have yet to receive much attention. In this paper, we propose a comparison framework for rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages, and provide an in-depth evaluation of prominent representatives of imperative, declarative and hybrid transformation languages. The framework provides criteria for comparison along orthogonal dimensions, covering static aspects, which indicate whether a set of inheriting transformation rules is well-formed at compile-time, and dynamic aspects, which describe how inheriting rules behave at run-time. The application of this framework to dedicated transformation languages shows that, while providing similar syntactical inheritance concepts, they exhibit different dynamic inheritance semantics and offer basic support for checking static inheritance semantics, only.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2
Number of pages46
JournalJournal of Object Technology
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Comparison
  • Model transformation
  • Rule inheritance

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