Approaches to Co-Evolution of Metamodels and Models: A Survey
Review article, 2017

Modeling languages, just as all software artifacts, evolve. This poses the risk that legacy models of a company get lost, when they become incompatible with the new language version. To address this risk, a multitude of approaches for metamodel-model co-evolution were proposed in the last 10 years. However, the high number of solutions makes it difficult for practitioners to choose an appropriate approach. In this paper, we present a survey on 31 approaches to support metamodel-model co-evolution. We introduce a taxonomy of solution techniques and classify the existing approaches. To support researchers, we discuss the state of the art, in order to better identify open issues. Furthermore, we use the results to provide a decision support for practitioners, who aim to adopt solutions from research.

Atmospheric modeling

Taxonomy

Productivity

Libraries

Companies

Biological system modeling

Unified modeling language

Author

Regina Hebig

University of Gothenburg

Djamel Eddine Khelladi

Sorbonne University

Reda Bendraou

Sorbonne University

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

0098-5589 (ISSN) 19393520 (eISSN)

Vol. 43 5 396-414 7569018

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1109/TSE.2016.2610424

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