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Model Refactorings for and with Graph Transformation Rules

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Refactoring denotes the activity of improving the structure of software by applying a series of transformations without affecting its externally observable behavior. Refactoring has been applied extensively at the source code level. In the context of model-driven software engineering, refactoring has to be applied consistently to both structural and behavioral models. In this paper, we present tool support for model refactoring in ModGraph, a tool which employs Ecore class diagrams for structural modeling and graph transformation rules for declarative behavioral modeling. A refactoring transformation restructures the structural model — an Ecore class diagram — and propagates the changes consistently to the behavioral model — a set of graph transformation rules. Since the refactoring transformations are implemented with graph transformation rules, ModGraph supports model refactoring both for and with graph transformation rules.

This paper is an extended and revised version of [27].

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    http://btn1x4.inf.uni-bayreuth.de/modgraph/homepage.

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    https://wiki.eclipse.org/Xcore.

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Winetzhammer, S., Westfechtel, B. (2015). Model Refactorings for and with Graph Transformation Rules. In: Holzinger, A., Cardoso, J., Cordeiro, J., Libourel, T., Maciaszek, L., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 555. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25579-8_19

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