Eugenia: towards disciplined and automated development of GMF-based graphical model editors

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• 作者：Dimitrios S. Kolovos ; Antonio García-Domínguez…
• 关键词：Graphical modelling ; Model transformation ; Eclipse ; GMF
• 刊名：Software & Systems Modeling
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 页码：229-255
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• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet);
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1619-1374
• 卷排序：16

文摘

EMF and GMF are powerful frameworks for implementing tool support for modelling languages in Eclipse. However, with power comes complexity, implementing a graphical editor for a modelling language using EMF and GMF requires developers to handcraft and maintain several detailed interconnected models through a loosely guided, labour-intensive, and error-prone process. We demonstrate how the application of metamodel annotation and model transformation techniques can help to manage the complexity of GMF and EMF and deliver significant productivity, quality, and maintainability benefits. We present Eugenia, an open-source tool that implements the proposed approach, illustrate its functionality with an example, evaluate it through an empirical study, and report on the community’s response to the tool.