Engineering Delta Modeling Languages
Abstract
Delta modeling is a modular, yet flexible approach to capture spatial and temporal variability by explicitly representing the differences between system variants or versions. The conceptual idea of delta modeling is language-independent. But, in order to apply delta modeling for a concrete language, so far, a delta language had to be manually developed on top of the base language leading to a large variety of heterogeneous language concepts. In this paper, we present a process that allows deriving a delta language from the grammar of a given base language. Our approach relies on an automatically generated language extension that can be manually adapted to meet domain-specific needs. We illustrate our approach using delta modeling on a textual variant of statecharts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1408.5756,
title = {Engineering Delta Modeling Languages},
author = {Arne Haber and Katrin Hölldobler and Carsten Kolassa and Markus Look and Klaus Müller and Bernhard Rumpe and Ina Schaefer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5756},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 8 figures. Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference, Tokyo, September 2013, pp.22-31, ACM, 2013