Year: 2013
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Delta modeling is a modular, yet flexible approach to capture spatial and temporal variability by explicitly representing the differences between system variants or versions. The conceptual idea of delta modeling is language-independent. But, in order to apply delta modeling for a concrete language, so far, a delta language had to be manually developed on top of the base language leading to a large variety of heterogeneous language concepts. In this paper, we present a process that allows deriving a delta language from the grammar of a given base language. Our approach relies on an automatically generated language extension that can be manually adapted to meet domain-specific needs. We illustrate our approach using delta modeling on a textual variant of statecharts.
Authors: Arne Haber, Katrin Hölldobler, Carsten Kolassa, Markus Look, Bernhard Rumpe, Klaus Müller, Ina Schaefer
Institutions: RWTH Aachen University, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1989236270