A graph based approach to trace models composition

Youness Laghouaouta (1) , Adil Anwar (2) , Mahmoud Nassar (1) , Bernard Coulette (3)

1 ENSIAS - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyses des Systèmes
2 EMI
3 IRIT-MACAO - Modèles, Architectures, Composants, Agilité et prOcessus

A model driven engineering process involves different and heterogeneous models that represent various perspectives of the system under development. The model composition operation allows combining those sub-models into an integrated view, but remains a tedious activity. For that, traceability information must be maintained to comprehend the composition effects and better manage the operation itself. Against this context, the current paper describes a framework for model composition traceability. We consider the traces generation concern as a crosscutting concern where the weaving mechanism is performed using graph transformations. A composition specification case study is presented to illustrate our contribution.

Mots clés: Traceability; Model composition; Model transformation; Aspect oriented modeling; Graph transformation

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Systèmes embarqués; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Modélisation et simulation

Youness Laghouaouta, Adil Anwar, Mahmoud Nassar, Bernard Coulette. A graph based approach to trace models composition. Journal of Software, 2014, vol. 9 (n° 11), pp. 2813-2822. ⟨10.4304/jsw.9.11.2813-2822⟩. ⟨hal-01154188⟩