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Engineering delta modeling languages

Authors:

Katrin Hölldobler,

Carsten Kolassa,

Bernhard Rumpe,

Ina SchaeferAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '13: Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference

Pages 22 - 31

https://doi.org/10.1145/2491627.2491632

Published: 26 August 2013 Publication History

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.

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Engineering delta modeling languages
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