Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Correct Architecture Refinement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
A pattern-based performance completion for Message-oriented Middleware
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Composition Techniques for Rule-Based Model Transformation Languages
ICMT '08 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
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ASE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Automated Feature Model-Based Generation of Refinement Transformations
SEAA '09 Proceedings of the 2009 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Generating systems from multiple levels of abstraction
TEAA'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Trends in enterprise application architecture
Model transformation by example
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Transformation composition modelling framework
DAIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Evaluating maintainability with code metrics for model-to-model transformations
QoSA'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Quality of Software Architectures: research into Practice - Reality and Gaps
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Modular artifact synthesis from domain-specific models
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
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Model transformations are a major instrument of model-driven software development. Especially in declarative transformation approaches, the structuring of transformations depends to a large extent on the structure of the source models and the generated artefacts. In many cases, similar code is written for transformations that deal with the same source or target metamodel. Writing such transformations can be simplified significantly if re-occurring parts within the transformation rules can be specified in a reusable way. Current approaches to transformation development include means for transformation reuse as well as inheritance. However, modularisation along the boundaries of different parts of domain metamodels is still lacking. Furthermore, the possibilities to reuse transformation fragments that re-occur in multiple transformations is limited. In this paper, we introduce domain-specific templates for refinement transformations with well-defined variation points. Transformation templates are based on known design patterns and enable a modular specification of refinement transformations and thus yield a simpler definition of transformations that can be grasped more easily and developed more efficiently. In addition, we present a real-world case study of transformation templates in the context of component based software architectures. The case study gives insight into the application of the presented approach.