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Adaptability of model comparison tools

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Timo Kehrer,

Udo Kelter,

Pit Pietsch,

Maik SchmidtAuthors Info & Claims

ASE '12: Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Pages 306 - 309

https://doi.org/10.1145/2351676.2351731

Published: 03 September 2012 Publication History

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Modern model-based development methodologies require a large number of efficient, high-quality model comparison tools. They must be carefully adapted to the specific model type, user preferences and application context. Implementing a large number of dedicated, monolithic tools is infeasible, the only viable approach are generic, adaptable tools. Generic tools currently available provide only partial or low-quality solutions to this challenge; their results are not satisfactory for model types such as state machines or block diagrams. This paper presents the SiDiff approach to model comparison which includes a set of highly configurable incremental matchers and a specification language to control their application.

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ASE '12: Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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409 pages

ISBN:9781450312042

DOI:10.1145/2351676

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