Abstract
Many model-driven engineering workflows take the existing
code of a system as an input. Some of these include validation and verification,
software modernisation or knowledge extraction. Current approaches
take the code and produce a standalone model, instead of treating
the code itself as a model and navigating through it on demand. For
very large codebases this can be quite expensive to produce, and the
resulting model can be too large to suit the simplest monolithic filebased
stores. In this work we propose reusing a model that is already
incrementally built for us and supports fast lookups: the internal indices
maintained by our integrated development environments for code analysis
and refactoring. In particular, we show an Epsilon driver that exposes
the Eclipse JDT indices of one or more Java projects as a model, and
compare its performance and usability against MoDisco for validating
Java code with regards to a partial UML model.
code of a system as an input. Some of these include validation and verification,
software modernisation or knowledge extraction. Current approaches
take the code and produce a standalone model, instead of treating
the code itself as a model and navigating through it on demand. For
very large codebases this can be quite expensive to produce, and the
resulting model can be too large to suit the simplest monolithic filebased
stores. In this work we propose reusing a model that is already
incrementally built for us and supports fast lookups: the internal indices
maintained by our integrated development environments for code analysis
and refactoring. In particular, we show an Epsilon driver that exposes
the Eclipse JDT indices of one or more Java projects as a model, and
compare its performance and usability against MoDisco for validating
Java code with regards to a partial UML model.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Oct 2016 |
| Event | 16th International Workshop in OCL and Textual Modeling, - Saint Malo, France Duration: 2 Oct 2016 → 2 Oct 2016 http://oclworkshop.github.io/2016/ |
Workshop
| Workshop | 16th International Workshop in OCL and Textual Modeling, |
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| Abbreviated title | OCL |
| Country/Territory | France |
| City | Saint Malo |
| Period | 2/10/16 → 2/10/16 |
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