Blended Graphical and Textual Modelling of UML-RT State-Machines: An Industrial Experience

Higher-order transformations for the generation of synchronization infrastructures in blended modeling

“…Although the ultimate goal of this effort is to provide a blended modeling environment for the entire UML-RT language, in this paper we focus on the most complex part, namely the provision of a flexible solution for blended modeling of UML-RT state-machines. Starting from the canonical graphical concrete syntax for UML-RT state machines, the provision of a blended modeling environment with seamless synchronization can be broken down into two main steps which we have successfully carried out in Latifaj et al (2021Latifaj et al ( , 2022. More specifically, in Latifaj et al (2021) we describe the effort of designing, implementing and integrating a textual notation for UML-RT state machines in RTist.…”

“…More specifically, in Latifaj et al (2021) we describe the effort of designing, implementing and integrating a textual notation for UML-RT state machines in RTist. In Latifaj et al (2022) we contribute with the customization of the textual editor for UML-RT state-machines with advanced formatting features including systematic support for hidden regions which group hidden tokens (e.g., comments, whitespaces) between two semantic tokens and the provision of synchronization mechanism between textual and graphical notations. However, the synchronization mechanisms were manually defined in terms of model transformations between two specific DSMLs describing textual and graphical notations.…”

Collaborative Model-Driven Software Engineering — A systematic survey of practices and needs in industry

“…To ensure that we were targeting the right subjects, we decided to select them by convenience sampling (Wohlin et al, 2012). Specifically, we directly contacted all industry partners within the consortium of the BUMBLE ITEA3 project 7 , a European research project centered on blended modeling (David et al, 2022a;Latifaj et al, 2021) and collaborative modeling (Franzago et al, 2018). We asked those practitioners to provide us a list of seeds about collaborative MDSE; to not restrict or bias too much the input of the practitioners, in the invitation we defined the seeds broadly, as requirements, needs, challenges, really anything related to collaborative modeling in your company.…”