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

Dimitrios S. Kolovos; Antonio García-Domínguez; Louis M. Rose; Richard F. Paige

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

Dimitrios S. Kolovos^*, Antonio García-Domínguez, Louis M. Rose, Richard F. Paige

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	229–255
Number of pages	27
Journal	Software and Systems Modeling
Volume	16
Issue number	1
Early online date	26 Feb 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-015-0455-3
Publication status	Published - Feb 2017

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graphical modelling
model transformation

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