Title
A posteriori operation detection in evolving software models.
Abstract
As every software artifact, also software models are subject to continuous evolution. The operations applied between two successive versions of a model are crucial for understanding its evolution. Generic approaches for detecting operations a posteriori identify atomic operations, but neglect composite operations, such as refactorings, which leads to cluttered difference reports. To tackle this limitation, we present an orthogonal extension of existing atomic operation detection approaches for detecting also composite operations. Our approach searches for occurrences of composite operations within a set of detected atomic operations in a post-processing manner. One major benefit is the reuse of specifications available for executing composite operations also for detecting applications of them. We evaluate the accuracy of the approach in a real-world case study and investigate the scalability of our implementation in an experiment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.jss.2012.09.037
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
atomic operation,approach search,software model,generic approach,model comparison,software artifact,model evolution,model refactoring,posteriori operation detection,composite operation,atomic operation detection approach,continuous evolution,neglect composite operation,cluttered difference report,bioinformatics,biomedical research
Data mining,Computer science,Reuse,A priori and a posteriori,Atomic operations,Software,Model refactoring,Executable,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
86
2
0164-1212
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
28
1.03
37
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philip Langer145129.29
Manuel Wimmer21617130.11
Petra Brosch321417.97
Markus Herrmannsdörfer4512.55
Martina Seidl568551.78
Konrad Wieland619411.91
Gerti Kappel71575349.41