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Supporting large scale model transformation reuse

Authors:

Fábio Paulo Basso,

Raquel Mainardi Pillat,

Toacy Cavalcante Oliveira,

Leandro Buss BeckerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 49, Issue 3

Pages 169 - 178

https://doi.org/10.1145/2637365.2517218

Published: 27 October 2013 Publication History

Abstract

The growth of applications developed with the support of model transformations makes reuse a required practice, specially when applied to transformation assets (e.g. transformation chains, algorithms, and configuration files). In order to promote reuse one must consider the different implementations, communalities, and variants among these assets. In this domain, a couple techniques have been used as solutions to adapt reusable assets for specific needs. However, so far, no work has discussed their combined use in real software projects. In this paper, we present a new tool named WCT, which can be used to adapt transformation assets. Moreover, through lessons learned in industry, we address some reuse techniques devoted to adapt these assets.

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Supporting large scale model transformation reuse
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Object oriented frameworks

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 49, Issue 3

GPCE '13

March 2014

181 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/2637365

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