Incremental model synchronization in model driven development environments

Razavi, A; Kontogiannis, K; Brealey, C; Nigul, L

dc.contributor.author	Razavi, A	en
dc.contributor.author	Kontogiannis, K	en
dc.contributor.author	Brealey, C	en
dc.contributor.author	Nigul, L	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:52:00Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:52:00Z
dc.date.issued	2009	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/35814
dc.subject.other	Complex model	en
dc.subject.other	Development environment	en
dc.subject.other	Domain constraint	en
dc.subject.other	Global models	en
dc.subject.other	Incremental models	en
dc.subject.other	Indexing models	en
dc.subject.other	Model driven development	en
dc.subject.other	Model synchronization	en
dc.subject.other	Model transformation	en
dc.subject.other	Model-Driven Software Development	en
dc.subject.other	Refactorings	en
dc.subject.other	Resynchronization	en
dc.subject.other	Software artifacts	en
dc.subject.other	Software model	en
dc.subject.other	Source codes	en
dc.subject.other	Transformation rules	en
dc.subject.other	Web tools	en
dc.subject.other	Computer software	en
dc.subject.other	Computer software maintenance	en
dc.subject.other	Software design	en
dc.subject.other	Synchronization	en
dc.subject.other	Rhenium compounds	en
dc.title	Incremental model synchronization in model driven development environments	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1145/1723028.1723053	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1723028.1723053	en
heal.publicationDate	2009	en
heal.abstract	Most modern model driven software development environments rely heavily on model transformations for generating various software design artifacts and eventually even source code. However, during development, maintenance and evolution activities, these software artifacts are subject to updates and refactoring operations. In such model driven development environments, these software artifacts need to be re-synchronized every time one of them is altered, so that they all remain consistent according to some specific rules, relations and domain constraints. Until now, the standard approach to model synchronization has been the re-application of all transformation rules, aiming thus for the complete re-generation of all artifacts in all models involved. This complete re-application is a safe yet computationally expensive way to ensure consistency among models. In this paper, we present a method for re-synchronizing software models in an incremental fashion by utilizing an indexing model. In this respect, using the proposed methodology, the time required for maintaining global model consistency is proportional to the size of the changes and not that of the models involved. The proposed approach has been applied for the incremental re-synchronization of large and complex models in the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP). Results indicate that this solution can significantly reduce the time required to re-synchronize models in such comprehensive development environments as WTP. Copyright © 2009 Ali Razavi, Kostas Kontogiannis, IBM Canada Ltd.	en
heal.journalName	Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, CASCON '09	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1145/1723028.1723053	en
dc.identifier.spage	216	en
dc.identifier.epage	230	en