Meta-Modeling Based Version Control System for Software Diagrams

Takafumi ODA
Motoshi SAEKI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E89-D    No.4    pp.1390-1402
Publication Date: 2006/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.4.1390
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering)
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Keyword: 
UML diagram,  version control system,  meta-CASE,  repository,  

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Summary: 
In iterative software development methodology, a version control system is used in order to record and manage modification histories of products such as source codes and models described in diagrams. However, conventional version control systems cannot manage the models as a logical unit because the systems mainly handle source codes. In this paper, we propose a version control technique for handling diagrammatical models as logical units. Then we illustrate the feasibility of our approach with the implementation of version control functions of a meta-CASE tool that is able to generate a modeling tool in order to deal with various diagrams.

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