%0 Conference Paper %1 wenzel07icsm %A Wenzel, S. %A Hutter, H. %A Kelter, U. %B International Conference on Software Maintenance %D 2007 %K diff model uml %P 104-113 %T Tracing Model Elements %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362623 %X In model-driven engineering developers work mainly or only with models, which exist in many versions. This paper presents an approach to trace single model elements or groups of elements within a version history of a model. It also offers analysis capabilities such as detection of logical coupling between model elements. The approach uses a differencing algorithm blown as SiDiff to identify similar elements in different versions of a model. SiDiff is highly configurable and thus our tracing approach can be adapted to all diagram types of the UML and to a large set of domain specific languages. The approach has been implemented as an Eclipse plug-in that visualizes all relevant information about the traces and it allows developers to interactively explore details. It has been evaluated by several groups of test persons; they considered most of the functions of the tool to be very useful

@inproceedings{wenzel07icsm, abstract = {In model-driven engineering developers work mainly or only with models, which exist in many versions. This paper presents an approach to trace single model elements or groups of elements within a version history of a model. It also offers analysis capabilities such as detection of logical coupling between model elements. The approach uses a differencing algorithm blown as SiDiff to identify similar elements in different versions of a model. SiDiff is highly configurable and thus our tracing approach can be adapted to all diagram types of the UML and to a large set of domain specific languages. The approach has been implemented as an Eclipse plug-in that visualizes all relevant information about the traces and it allows developers to interactively explore details. It has been evaluated by several groups of test persons; they considered most of the functions of the tool to be very useful}, added-at = {2008-05-29T20:38:08.000+0200}, author = {Wenzel, S. and Hutter, H. and Kelter, U.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27fed6b9d5ee86952a5c9fc5a41f3cf27/neilernst}, booktitle = {International Conference on Software Maintenance}, interhash = {fb27689c031f593ea86feb9784324d82}, intrahash = {7fed6b9d5ee86952a5c9fc5a41f3cf27}, keywords = {diff model uml}, month = {October}, pages = {104-113}, timestamp = {2008-05-29T20:38:10.000+0200}, title = {Tracing Model Elements}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362623}, year = 2007 }