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COPE – A Workbench for the Coupled Evolution of Metamodels and Models

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Model-driven software development promises to increase productivity by offering modeling languages tailored to a problem domain. Consequently, an increasing number of modeling languages are built using metamodel-based language workbenches. In response to changing requirements and technologies, the modeling languages and thus their metamodels need to be adapted. Manual migration of existing models in response to metamodel adaptation is tedious and error-prone. In this paper, we present our tool COPE to automate the coupled evolution of metamodels and models. To not lose the intention behind the adaptation, COPE records the coupled evolution in an explicit history model. Based on this history model, COPE provides advanced tool support to inspect, refactor and recover the coupled evolution.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching b. München, Germany

    Markus Herrmannsdoerfer

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  1. Computer Science Dept., Clemson University, SC 29634, Clemson, USA

    Brian Malloy

  2. Institute for Computer Science, University of Koblenz, P.O.Box 201602, 56016, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

  3. Mathematics and Computer Science Dept., Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Mark van den Brand

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Herrmannsdoerfer, M. (2011). COPE – A Workbench for the Coupled Evolution of Metamodels and Models. In: Malloy, B., Staab, S., van den Brand, M. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19440-5_18

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