Model Transformation Languages with Modular Information Hiding
Model Transformation Languages with Modular Information Hiding

Author: Rentschler, Andreas

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2015-04-13

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 3731503468

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Model transformations, together with models, form the principal artifacts in model-driven software development. Industrial practitioners report that transformations on larger models quickly get sufficiently large and complex themselves. To alleviate entailed maintenance efforts, this thesis presents a modularity concept with explicit interfaces, complemented by software visualization and clustering techniques. All three approaches are tailored to the specific needs of the transformation domain.

A Reference Structure for Modular Model-based Analyses
A Reference Structure for Modular Model-based Analyses

Author: Koch, Sandro Giovanni

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2024-04-25

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 3731513412

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In this work, the authors analysed the co-dependency between models and analyses, particularly the structure and interdependence of artefacts and the feature-based decomposition and composition of model-based analyses. Their goal is to improve the maintainability of model-based analyses. They have investigated the co-dependency of Domain-specific Modelling Languages (DSMLs) and model-based analyses regarding evolvability, understandability, and reusability.

Specification Languages for Preserving Consistency between Models of Different Languages
Specification Languages for Preserving Consistency between Models of Different Languages

Author: Kramer, Max Emanuel

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2019-01-30

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 3731507846

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When complex IT systems are being developed, the usage of several programming and modelling languages can lead to inconsistencies that yield faulty designs and implementations. To address this problem, this work contributes a classification of consistency preservation challenges and an approach for preserving consistency. It is formalized using set theory and monitors changes to avoid matching and diffing problems. Three new languages that follow this preservation approach are presented.

Implicit Incremental Model Analyses and Transformations
Implicit Incremental Model Analyses and Transformations

Author: Hinkel, Georg

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2021-07-20

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 3731507633

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When models of a system change, analyses based on them have to be reevaluated in order for the results to stay meaningful. In many cases, the time to get updated analysis results is critical. This thesis proposes multiple, combinable approaches and a new formalism based on category theory for implicitly incremental model analyses and transformations. The advantages of the implementation are validated using seven case studies, partially drawn from the Transformation Tool Contest (TTC).

Building Transformation Networks for Consistent Evolution of Interrelated Models
Building Transformation Networks for Consistent Evolution of Interrelated Models

Author: Klare, Heiko

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 3731511320

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Complex software systems are described with multiple artifacts, such as code, design diagrams and others. Ensuring their consistency is crucial and can be automated with transformations for pairs of artifacts. We investigate how developers can combine independently developed and reusable transformations to networks that preserve consistency between more than two artifacts. We identify synchronization, compatibility and orchestration as central challenges, and we develop approaches to solve them.

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

Author: Perdita Stevens

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 3662496658

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: concurrent and distributed systems; model-driven development; analysis and bug triaging; probabilistic and stochastic systems; proof and theorem proving; and verification.

Architecture-based Evolution of Dependable Software-intensive Systems
Architecture-based Evolution of Dependable Software-intensive Systems

Author: Heinrich, Robert

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2023-06-05

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 3731512947

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This cumulative habilitation thesis, proposes concepts for (i) modelling and analysing dependability based on architectural models of software-intensive systems early in development, (ii) decomposition and composition of modelling languages and analysis techniques to enable more flexibility in evolution, and (iii) bridging the divergent levels of abstraction between data of the operation phase, architectural models and source code of the development phase.