Reality Check for Model Transformation Reuse: The ATL Transformation Zoo Case Study

Angelika Kusel; Johannes Schönböck; Manuel Wimmer; Werner Retschitzegger; Wieland Schwinger; Gertrude Kappel

Reality Check for Model Transformation Reuse: The ATL Transformation Zoo Case Study

Angelika Kusel, Johannes Schönböck, Manuel Wimmer, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwinger, Gertrude Kappel

Department of Cooperative Information Systems

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Abstract

Model transformations play a major role in model-driven engineering. For increasing development productivity as well as quality of model transformations, different kinds of reuse mechanisms have been proposed. However, it remains unclear to which extent reuse mechanisms have made their way into practical application. Thus, this paper presents an empirical study on the ATL Transformation Zoo to analyze the application frequency of reuse mechanisms. For this, we developed a semi-automated process for extracting transformation projects from the ATL Transformation Zoo, which are classified and analyzed with respect to the application frequency of reuse mechanisms. Finally, limitations of current reuse mechanisms, which potentially hinder their practical applicability, are critically reflected, pointing out further research directions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on the Analysis of Model Transformations (AMT) @ MoDELS
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2013

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102015 Information systems
102014 Information design
102027 Web engineering

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics

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