Automated verification of model transformations based on visual contracts

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-46

  Guerra, Esther ^a   De Lara, Juan ^a   Wimmer, Manuel ^b   Kappel, Gerti ^b   Kusel, Angelika ^c   Retschitzegger, Werner ^c   Schönböck, Johannes ^b   Schwinger, Wieland ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Contract based specification; Model transformation; Model Driven Engineering; QVT relations; Verification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED VERIFICATION; DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; GRAPHICAL MODELING; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; PROOF OF CONCEPT; QVT-RELATIONS; VISUAL CONTRACTS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS; VERIFICATION;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84872011186     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: 15737535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10515-012-0102-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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