Incremental Development of Model Transformation Chains Using Automated Testing

  • Authors:
  • Jochen M. Küster;Thomas Gschwind;Olaf Zimmermann

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland 8803;IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland 8803;IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon, Switzerland 8803

  • Venue:
  • MODELS '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Model transformations are a key technique in model-driven engineering. If several transformations are composed into a model transformation chain, an approach is needed that allows software engineers to incrementally improve the quality of the model transformation chain. In this paper, we propose incremental development of model transformation chains based on automated testing. We present four test design techniques and a test framework architecture for testing transformation chains and report on the validation of our approach when developing a transformation chain for model version management.