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A survey and comparison of transformation tools based on the transformation tool contest

Louis M. RoseKevin LanoSebastian WätzoldtSebastian BuchwaldChristian KrauseMarkus HerrmannsdörferMarkus LepperLi DanEdgar JakumeitTassilo HornElina KalninaÁBel HegedüsSteffen MazanekDennis WagelaarArend Rensink

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Graph rewritingbusiness.industryComputer scienceModel transformationTool ContestIR-88463METIS-300205GROOVEData structurecomputer.software_genreCONTESTTransformation ToolsTool ContestSurveyGROOVESoftwareGraph (abstract data type)EWI-24063Data miningSoftware engineeringbusinessSurveycomputerSoftwareTransformation Toolscomputer.programming_language

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Model transformation is one of the key tasks in model-driven engineering and relies on the efficient matching and modification of graph-based data structures; its sibling graph rewriting has been used to successfully model problems in a variety of domains. Over the last years, a wide range of graph and model transformation tools have been developed – all of them with their own particular strengths and typical application domains. In this paper, we give a survey and a comparison of the model and graph transformation tools that participated at the Transformation Tool Contest 2011. The reader gains an overview of the field and its tools, based on the illustrative solutions submitted to a Hello World task, and a comparison alongside a detailed taxonomy. The article is of interest to researchers in the field of model and graph transformation, as well as to software engineers with a transformation task at hand who have to choose a tool fitting to their needs. All solutions referenced in this article provide a SHARE demo. It supported the peer-review process for the contest, and now allows the reader to test the tools online.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-06-01Science of computer programming
10.1016/j.scico.2013.10.009https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2013.10.009