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Analyzing the Effort of Composing Design Models of Large-Scale Software in Industrial Case Studies

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Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2013)

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Abstract

The importance of model composition in model-centric software development is well recognized by researchers and practitioners. However, little is known about the critical factors influencing the effort that developers invest to combine design models, detect and resolve inconsistencies in practice. This paper, therefore, reports on five industrial case studies where the model composition was used to evolve and reconcile large-scale design models. These studies aim at: (1) gathering empirical evidence about the extent of composition effort when realizing different categories of changes, and (2) identifying and analyzing their influential factors. A series of 297 evolution scenarios was performed on the target systems, leading to more than 2 million compositions of model elements. Our findings suggest that: the inconsistency resolution effort is much higher than the upfront effort to apply the composition technique and detect inconsistencies; the developer’s reputation significantly influences the resolution of conflicting changes; and the evolutions dominated by additions required less effort.

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  1. PIPCA, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil

    Kleinner Farias

  2. OPUS Research Group/LES, Informatics Department, PUC-Rio, RJ, Brazil

    Alessandro Garcia & Carlos Lucena

  3. School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK

    Jon Whittle

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Ana Moreira

  2. Institut für Mathematik, fortiss / Technische Universität München, Guerickestraße 25, 80805, München, Germany

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  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama, Box 870290, 35487-0290, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

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Farias, K., Garcia, A., Whittle, J., Lucena, C. (2013). Analyzing the Effort of Composing Design Models of Large-Scale Software in Industrial Case Studies. In: Moreira, A., Schätz, B., Gray, J., Vallecillo, A., Clarke, P. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41533-3_39

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