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An Introduction to Model Versioning

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Formal Methods for Model-Driven Engineering (SFM 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 7320))

Abstract

With the emergence of model-driven engineering (MDE), software models are considered as central artifacts in the software engineering process, going beyond their traditional use as sketches. In MDE, models rather act as the single source of information for automatically generating executable software. This shift poses several new research challenges. One of these challenges constitutes model versioning, which targets at enabling efficient team-based development of models. This compelling challenge induced a very active research community, who yielded remarkable methods and techniques ranging from model differencing to merging of models.

In this tutorial, we give an introduction to the foundations of model versioning, the underlying technologies for processing models and their evolution, as well as the state of the art in model versioning. Thereby, we aim at equipping students and researchers alike that are new to this domain with enough information for commencing to contribute to this challenging research area.

This work has been funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT10-018, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant J 3159-N23, and by the fFORTE WIT Program of the Vienna University of Technology and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.

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Brosch, P., Kappel, G., Langer, P., Seidl, M., Wieland, K., Wimmer, M. (2012). An Introduction to Model Versioning. In: Bernardo, M., Cortellessa, V., Pierantonio, A. (eds) Formal Methods for Model-Driven Engineering. SFM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30982-3_10

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