An automated and instant discovery of concrete repairs for model inconsistencies

Roland Kretschmer; Djamel Eddine Khelladi; Alexander Egyed

doi:10.1145/3183440.3194979

An automated and instant discovery of concrete repairs for model inconsistencies

Roland Kretschmer, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Alexander Egyed

Institute of Software Systems Engineering

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Abstract

Developers change software models continuously but often fail in keeping them consistent. Inconsistencies caused by such changes need to be repaired eventually. While we found that usually few model elements need to be repaired for any given inconsistency, there are many possible repair values for any given model element. To make matters worse, model elements need to be repaired in combination. The result is a large and exponentially growing repair space. In this paper we present an approach towards grouping alike repair values if they have the same effect to provide example-like feedback for developers. A preliminary evaluation shows that our approach can more scalably explore the repair space.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings, ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27 - June 03, 2018
Editors	Michel Chaudron and Ivica Crnkovic and Marsha Chechik and Mark Harman
Publisher	ACM
Pages	298-299
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3194979
Publication status	Published - 2018

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102022 Software development

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

Access to Document

10.1145/3183440.3194979

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Kretschmer, R., Khelladi, D. E., & Egyed, A. (2018). An automated and instant discovery of concrete repairs for model inconsistencies. In Michel Chaudron and Ivica Crnkovic and Marsha Chechik and Mark Harman (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings, ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27 - June 03, 2018 (pp. 298-299). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3194979

Kretschmer, Roland ; Khelladi, Djamel Eddine ; Egyed, Alexander. / An automated and instant discovery of concrete repairs for model inconsistencies. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings, ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27 - June 03, 2018. editor / Michel Chaudron and Ivica Crnkovic and Marsha Chechik and Mark Harman. ACM, 2018. pp. 298-299

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceedings › peer-review

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Kretschmer R, Khelladi DE, Egyed A. An automated and instant discovery of concrete repairs for model inconsistencies. In Michel Chaudron and Ivica Crnkovic and Marsha Chechik and Mark Harman, editor, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings, ICSE 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27 - June 03, 2018. ACM. 2018. p. 298-299 doi: 10.1145/3183440.3194979