Verification and validation of declarative model-to-model transformations through invariants

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 283-302

  Cabot, Jordi ^a   Clarisó, Robert ^a   Guerra, Esther ^b   de Lara, Juan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Model Driven Development; Model to model transformation; OCL; QVT; Triple Graph Grammars; Verification and validation

Indexed keywords

DECLARATIVE MODELS; MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; MODEL TO MODEL TRANSFORMATION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; TRIPLE GRAPH GRAMMARS; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; FORMAL LANGUAGES;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 73349129041     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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