Adaptability of model comparison tools

• Published in: 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) : proceedings, September 3-7, 2012, Essen, Germany pp. 306 - 309
• Main Authors: Kehrer, Timo, Kelter, Udo, Pietsch, Pit, Schmidt, Maik
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 03.09.2012
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Applied computing > Document management and text processing > Document management > Text editing; model comparsion; model configuration management; model matching; Model versioning; Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Management of computing and information systems > Software management > Software maintenance; Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues; Model versioning; model comparsion; model configuration management; model matching
• ISBN: 1450312047; 9781450312042
• DOI: 10.1145/2351676.2351731

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.