On the usage of concrete syntax in model transformation rules

Authors:
Thomas Baar;Jon Whittle
Affiliations:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland;Department of Information and Software Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Venue:
PSI'06 Proceedings of the 6th international Andrei Ershov memorial conference on Perspectives of systems informatics
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Graph transformations are one of the best known approaches for defining transformations in model-based software development. They are defined over the abstract syntax of source and target languages, described by metamodels. Since graph transformations are defined on the abstract syntax level, they can be hard to read and require an in-depth knowledge of the source and target metamodels. In this paper we investigate how graph transformations can be made much more compact and easier to read by using the concrete syntax of the source and target languages. We illustrate our approach by defining model refactorings.