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Refactoring information systems: association folding and unfolding

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 36, Issue 4

Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/1988997.1989011

Published: 04 August 2011 Publication History

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Agile software development methods need powerful refactoring tools. For the time being, there is only little support for the refactoring of complete productive systems, i. e. data and functional models together with possibly large databases and possibly long running processes. In this paper, we present an algebraic framework for model refactorings and induced data migrations. Within the framework theoretical results can be proven which are needed as a solid basis for practical tool support: we investigate sequential composition of refactorings here. The framework in this paper is a simplified version of our previous approaches, provides, however, more modelling power.

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Corradini ADuval DEchahed RProst FRibeiro L(2019)The PBPO graph transformation approachJournal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming10.1016/j.jlamp.2018.12.003103(213-231)Online publication date: Feb-2019
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlamp.2018.12.003
Löwe M(2018)Double-Pushout Rewriting in ContextSoftware Technologies: Applications and Foundations10.1007/978-3-030-04771-9_32(447-462)Online publication date: 6-Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04771-9_32

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Refactoring information systems: association folding and unfolding
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 36, Issue 4

July 2011

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ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1988997

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Corradini ADuval DEchahed RProst FRibeiro L(2019)The PBPO graph transformation approachJournal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming10.1016/j.jlamp.2018.12.003103(213-231)Online publication date: Feb-2019
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlamp.2018.12.003
Löwe M(2018)Double-Pushout Rewriting in ContextSoftware Technologies: Applications and Foundations10.1007/978-3-030-04771-9_32(447-462)Online publication date: 6-Dec-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04771-9_32

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