Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus

Wei, Ran and Zolotas, Athanasios and Hoyos Rodriguez, Horacio and Gerasimou, Simos and Kolovos, Dimitrios S. and Paige, Richard F. (2020) Automatic generation of UML profile graphical editors for Papyrus. Software and Systems Modeling, 19. pp. 1083-1106. ISSN 1619-1366

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Abstract

UML profiles offer an intuitive way for developers to build domain-specific modelling languages by reusing and extending UML concepts. Eclipse Papyrus is a powerful open-source UML modelling tool which supports UML profiling. However, with power comes complexity, implementing non-trivial UML profiles and their supporting editors in Papyrus typically requires the developers to handcraft and maintain a number of interconnected models through a loosely guided, labour-intensive and error-prone process. We demonstrate how metamodel annotations and model transformation techniques can help manage the complexity of Papyrus in the creation of UML profiles and their supporting editors. We present Jorvik, an open-source tool that implements the proposed approach. We illustrate its functionality with examples, and we evaluate our approach by comparing it against manual UML profile specification and editor implementation using a non-trivial enterprise modelling language (Archimate) as a case study. We also perform a user study in which developers are asked to produce identical editors using both Papyrus and Jorvik demonstrating the substantial productivity and maintainability benefits that Jorvik delivers.

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Journal Article
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Software and Systems Modeling
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222048
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11 Jul 2024 13:50
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Published
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