COPE - A workbench for the coupled evolution of metamodels and models

Abstract

Model-driven software development promises to increase productivity by offering modeling languages tailored to a problem domain. Consequently, an increasing number of modeling languages are built using metamodel-based language workbenches. In response to changing requirements and technologies, the modeling languages and thus their metamodels need to be adapted. Manual migration of existing models in response to metamodel adaptation is tedious and error-prone. In this paper, we present our tool COPE to automate the coupled evolution of metamodels and models. To not lose the intention behind the adaptation, COPE records the coupled evolution in an explicit history model. Based on this history model, COPE provides advanced tool support to inspect, refactor and recover the coupled evolution. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.