What is needed for managing co-evolution in MDE?

Metamodels can be considered one of the cardinal concepts of Model-Driven Engineering, one which a number of coordinated entities such as models, transformations and tools, are dependent on. Analogously to any software artifact, metamodels are equally prone to evolution during their lifetime. As a consequence, whenever a metamodel changes, any related entity must be consistently adapted for preserving its wellformedness, consistency, or intrinsic correctness. This paper discusses the problem of co-adapting models, transformations, and tools. Different aspects are taken into account and a prospective and unifying characterization is given with the intent of clarifying the main difficulties and outline the basic requirements for possible solutions. In this respect, EMFMigrate a comprehensive approach to the metamodel co-evolution problem is proposed.

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