Assessing and improving quality of QVTo model transformations

Gerpheide, Christine M.; Schiffelers, R.R.H.; Serebrenik, Alexander

doi:10.1007/s11219-015-9280-8

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“…Each interview lasted 45-60 minutes and was audio recorded and later transcribed. A one-page interview guide (available in [19]) was used by the interviewer to help direct the interview, containing questions about development processes, typical bugs and refactorings, development guidelines, differences in developing QVTo versus other languages, as well as poor practices exhibited by those learning QVTo. To assess the interview format, a mock interview was performed with an independent developer before-hand.…”

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A Bottom-Up Quality Model for QVTo

Gerpheide

Schiffelers

Serebrenik

2014

2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology

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Abstract-We investigate the notion of quality in QVT Operational Mappings (QVTo), one of the languages defined in the OMG standard on model-to-model transformations. We utilize a bottom-up approach, starting with a broad exploratory study including QVTo expert interviews, a review of existing material, and introspection. We then formalize QVTo transformation quality into a QVTo quality model, consisting of high-level quality goals, quality properties, and evaluation procedures. We validate the quality model by conducting a survey in which a broader group of QVTo developers rate each property on its importance to QVTo code quality. We find that although many quality properties recognized as important for QVTo do have counterparts in traditional languages, a number are specific to QVTo or model transformation languages. Additionally, a selection of QVTo best practices discovered are presented. The primary contribution of this paper is a QVTo quality model relevant to QVTo practitioners, while secondary contributions are a bottom-up approach to building a quality model and a validation approach leveraging developer perceptions to evaluate individual quality properties.

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“…To complete the model, evaluation procedures are added for each property. An elaboration of our approach is given in [19].…”

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A Bottom-Up Quality Model for QVTo

Gerpheide

Schiffelers

Serebrenik

2014

2014 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology

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“…As the data source, Kitchenham and Charters [77] recommend the use of a search engine that offers a wide coverage of sources. Thus, we have chosen Google Scholar: it offers a wide coverage of electronic sources of different research areas, and it has been used in multiple software engineering studies [53,71,83,94,100,148].…”

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A systematic literature review of cross-domain model consistency checking by model management tools

2020

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Objective The goal of this study is to identify gaps and challenges related to cross-domain model management focusing on consistency checking. Method We conducted a systematic literature review. We used the keyword-based search on Google Scholar, and we identified 618 potentially relevant studies; after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, 96 papers were selected for further analysis. Results The main findings/contributions are: (i) a list of available tools used to support model management; (ii) 40% of the tools can provide consistency checking on models of different domains and 25% on models of the same domain, and 35% do not provide any consistency checking; (iii) available strategies to keep the consistency between models of different domains are not mature enough; (iv) most of the tools that provide consistency checking on models of different domains can only capture up to two inconsistency types; (v) the main challenges associated with tools that manage models on different domains are related to interoperability between tools and the consistency maintenance. Conclusion The results presented in this study can be used to guide new research on maintaining the consistency between models of different domains. Example of further research is to investigate how to capture the Behavioral and Refinement inconsistency types. This study also indicates that the tools should be improved in order to address, for example, more kinds of consistency check.

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“…An exploratory study based on interviews and research literature [22] was carried out to investigate methods of quality assurance in QVTo model transformations. One result of this study is a quality model focused on the QVTo transformations, with some properties that could be generalized to other Model-to-Model transformations.…”

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Case Study of Test Case Generation Based on Metamodel for Model Transformations

Giron¹,

Gimenes²,

OliveiraJr³

2017

JSW

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Abstract:The validation of transformations in the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) context is important to ensure the quality and correctness of the models. The validation of MDE transformation is burdensome due to both the complexity of the models and the variety of languages that implement them. A test case generation technique can be applied to support the validation process; however, it is challenging because of the size of the test cases set. This paper presents a case study which applies test case generation based on the SysML metamodel for MDE. A development approach for embedded systems, named SyMPLES, was applied. This approach transforms SysML models to Simulink. Two policies were evaluated in the test case generation based on the SysML metamodel. Moreover, a set of strategies and coverage criteria were applied in order to reduce the set of test cases generated and evaluate its effectiveness. The results showed that relevant errors were identified in the model transformation. The use of generation policies also improve the effectiveness of the test case set generated.

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Assessing and improving quality of QVTo model transformations

Cited by 22 publications

References 43 publications

A Bottom-Up Quality Model for QVTo

A Bottom-Up Quality Model for QVTo

A systematic literature review of cross-domain model consistency checking by model management tools

Case Study of Test Case Generation Based on Metamodel for Model Transformations

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