Incremental resolution of model inconsistencies

  • Authors:
  • Tom Mens;Ragnhild Van Der Straeten

  • Affiliations:
  • Software Engineering Lab, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium and LIFL, UMR, Université Lille 1, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France;Systems and Software Engineering Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • WADT'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Recent trends in algebraic development techniques
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

During model-driven software development, we are inevitably confronted with design models that contain a wide variety of inconsistencies. Interactive and automated support for detecting and resolving these inconsistencies is therefore indispensable. In this paper, we report on an iterative inconsistency resolution process. Our approach relies on the underlying formalism of graph transformation. We exploit the mechanism of critical pair analysis to analyse dependencies and conflicts between inconsistencies and resolutions, to detect resolution cycles and to analyse the completeness of resolutions. The results of this analysis are integrated in the iterative inconsistency resolution process and can help the software engineer to develop and evolve models in presence of inconsistencies.