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Requirements for Practical Model Merge --- An Industrial Perspective

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Pär EmanuelssonAuthors Info & Claims

MODELS '09: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

Pages 167 - 180

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04425-0_13

Published: 01 October 2009 Publication History

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All the support tools that developers are used to must be in place, if the use of model-centric development in companies has to take off. Industry deals with big models and many people working on the same model. Collaboration in a team inevitably leads to parallel work creating different versions that eventually will have to be merged together. However, our experience is that at present the support for model merge is far from optimal. In this paper, we put forward a number of requirements for practical merge tools, based on our analysis of literature, merge tool evaluations, interviews with developers, and a number of use cases for concurrent development of models. We found future work to do for both tool vendors and academic research. Fortunately we also uncovered a few tips and tricks that companies using model-centric development can implement on the short term while waiting for better times.

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MODELS '09: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

October 2009

754 pages

ISBN:9783642044243

Editors:
Andy Schürr
Fachgebiet Echtzeitsysteme, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt,, Germany 64283
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Bran Selic
Malina Software Corporation, Ontario, Canada K2J 2J3

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