Model Transformation By-Example: A Survey of the First Wave

Abstract. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) places models as firstclass artifacts throughout the software lifecycle. In this context, model transformations are crucial for the success of MDE, being comparable in role and importance to compilers for high-level programming languages. Thus, several model transformation approaches have been developed in the last decade, whereby originally most of them are based on the syntax of modeling languages. However, this implementation specific focus makes it difficult for modelers to develop model transformations, because they are familiar with the concrete syntax but not with its computer internal representation. To tackle this problem, model transformation by-example approaches have been proposed which follow the same fundamental idea as query by-example and programming by-example approaches. Instead of using the computer internal representation of models, examples represented in concrete syntax are used to define transformations. Because differ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: BIRTHDAY
• Authors: Gerti Kappel, Philip Langer, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwinger, Manuel Wimmer
• Keywords: Applied Computing, BIRTHDAY 2012, Concrete Syntax, Level Programming Languages, Transformation Approaches