Operation-based versioning of metamodels with COPE

• Published in: 2009 ICSE Workshop on Comparison and Versioning of Software Models Vol. 2009; no. 6; pp. 49 - 54
• Main Author: Herrmannsdoerfer, Markus
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 17.05.2009; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Adaptation model; Automotive engineering; Conferences; History; Productivity; 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 > Software reverse engineering; Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software post-development issues > Software version control; Software and its engineering > Software notations and tools > Software configuration management and version control systems; Software architecture; Software standards; Unified modeling language
• ISBN: 9781424437146; 1424437148
• ISSN: 0270-5257
• DOI: 10.1109/CVSM.2009.5071722

Model-based development promises to increase productivity by offering modeling languages tailored to a specific domain. Such modeling languages are typically defined by a metamodel. In response to changing requirements and technological progress, the domains and thus the metamodels are subject to change. Manually migrating existing models to a new version of their metamodel is tedious and error-prone. Hence, adequate tool support is required to support the maintenance of modeling languages. COPE provides adequate tool support by specifying the coupled evolution of metamodels and models. In this paper, we present the tool support to record the operations carried out on the metamodel directly through an editor. These operations can be enriched by instructions on how to migrate corresponding models. To further reduce migration effort, COPE provides high-level operations which have built-in meaning in terms of the migration of models.