Towards the automatic discovery of platform transformation templates of legacy object-oriented systems

Chénard, Gino; Khriss, Ismail; Salah, Aziz

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“…It also provides, for use in a platform-specific model, concepts representing the different kinds of elements to be used in specifying the use of the platform by an application (Miller and Mukerji, 2003). " In another work, we defined the PDM in two views (see Figure 1a): the UML profile and a set of transformations (Chénard et al, 2010).…”

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Towards an effective approach for composition of model transformations

Abdelmalek,

Khriss,

Jakimi

2024

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Model Driven Engineering (MDE) adoption in the industry suffers from many technical and non-technical problems. One of the significant technical problems lies in the difficulty of building complex transformations from the composition of small and reusable transformations. Another problem resides in developing transformations from scratch in case they are missing. In this paper, we present an approach to how to handle these issues. The approach allows composing reusable transformations to build more complex ones by providing a catalog of prebuilt transformations targeting common architectures, frameworks, and design patterns. To give guidance and simplify the task of developing new transformations, we describe a platform description model of an entire system or a part of it in two views: a UML profile and a set of transformations. We also present three transformation types, each of which handles different abstraction design concerns. Generic transformations are small and reusable to build complex transformations, system-independent transformations are reusable and implement high-level design decisions, and system-specific transformations are not reusable and implement all design decisions needed for a given system. The approach is implemented as a plugin for a UML modeling tool and validated by developing a system that simulates the behavior of a gas station through model transformations built from the composition of reusable transformations.

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“…Our MDE approach describes the PDM in two views: a UML profile and a set of transformations (Chénard et al, 2010). The UML profile is used to parameterize the PIM with the design decisions of a platform or architecture.…”

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Towards an effective approach for composition of model transformations

Abdelmalek,

Khriss,

Jakimi

2024

Front. Comput. Sci.

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“…Chénard et al [14] described an automatic process to discover templates from source code of object-oriented systems by using CCD techniques.…”

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Mining of DSLs and generator templates from reference applications

Rost

2020

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedi

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Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) found application in different domains. The development of Model-Driven Development (MDD) components is facilitated by a wealth of frameworks like EMF, Xtext, and Xtend. However, the development of the necessary IDE components still can take up to several weeks or even months until it can be used in a production environment. The first step during the development of such an MDD infrastructure is to analyse a set of reference applications to deduce the DSL used by the domain experts and the templates used in the generator. The analysis requires technical expertise and is usually performed by MDD infrastructure developers, who have to adhere to a close communication with domain experts and are exposed to high cognitive load and time-consuming tasks. The objective of this PhD project is to reduce the initial effort during the creation of new MDD infrastructure facilities for either a new domain or newly discovered platforms within a known domain. This should be made possible by the (semi-)automatic analysis of multiple codebases using Code Clone Detection (CCD) tools in a defined process flow. Code clones represent schematically redundant and generic code fragments which were found in the provided codebase. In the process, the key steps include (i) choosing appropriate reference applications (ii) distinguishing the codebase by clustering the files, (iii) reviewing the quality of the clusters, (iv) analysing the cluster by tailored CCD, and (v) transforming of the code clones, depending on the code clone type, to extract a DSL and the corresponding generator templates. CCS CONCEPTS • Information systems → Clustering; • Software and its engineering → Domain specific languages; Model-driven software engineering.

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“…First, this step exploits the relationships between classifiers and their attributes and operation to identify the constraints. For instance, as all Mapper classifiers in the PSM have the operation Insert, we can conclude that there is a dependency constraint that exists between the classifier PSC Mapper and the operation PSC In [10], we presented the results of the validation of an earlier version of our approach. This version provided an automatic mode and supported legacy systems in Java language.…”

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“…We presented respectively in [9] and in [10] an earlier version of the algorithms to discover the first view and the second view of a PDM from the source code of a legacy object-oriented system. This version, implemented in a prototype tool developed within the Eclipse Environment, proposed an automatic approach for the extraction and supported only legacy systems in Java language.…”

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A Bimodal Approach for the Discovery of a View of the Implementation Platform of Legacy Object-Oriented Systems under Modernization Process

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Chénard

Khriss

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EPiC Series in Computing

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Organizations are highly dependent on their software in carrying out their daily activities. Unfortunately, the repeated changes that are applied to these systems make their evolution difficult. This evolution may be necessary to maintain the software, replace or upgrade it. In the case of complex and poorly documented legacy systems, modernization is the only feasible solution to achieving the evolution goals. The OMG (Object Management Group) consortium created the Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) initiative to cope with the challenges of modernization. This initiative proposes, among other things, modernization through model-driven engineering (MDE). In this context, the modernization of a legacy system, not developed in an MDE environment, begins with its migration towards this type of environment. This migration raises the problem of finding the models necessary for the use of MDE representing this system.In this paper, we present a new bimodal approach to ADM modernization by enabling automatic and interactive modes to discover a view of the implementation platform of a legacy object-oriented system. Also, we present the key ideas of the algorithms behind this discovery process. Finally, we describe our prototype tool that implements our approach. This tool has been validated on several systems written in C# and Java languages.

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Towards the automatic discovery of platform transformation templates of legacy object-oriented systems

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Towards an effective approach for composition of model transformations

Towards an effective approach for composition of model transformations

Mining of DSLs and generator templates from reference applications

A Bimodal Approach for the Discovery of a View of the Implementation Platform of Legacy Object-Oriented Systems under Modernization Process

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