Graph Transformation for Software Engineers With Applications to
This book is an introduction to graph transformation as a foundation to model-based software engineering at the level of both individual systems and domain-specific modelling languages.The first part of the book presents the fundamentals in a precise, yet
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Graph Transformation for Software Engineers With Applications to Model-Based Development and Domain-Specific Language Engineering
Graph Transformation for Software Engineers
Reiko Heckel • Gabriele Taentzer
Graph Transformation for Software Engineers With Applications to Model-Based Development and Domain-Specific Language Engineering
Reiko Heckel University of Leicester Leicester, UK
Gabriele Taentzer Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg, Germany
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Forewords
Abstraction and modelling are two fundamental conceptual cornerstones of informatics. They are absolutely key to software engineering. Engineers need abstraction to dominate complexity of software design, implementation, deployment and operation. They need precise models to formalise abstractions and reason about them. Graphs are a powerful and general notation that can formally model software structures. They can express snapshots of complex relations among entities of different kinds. Through graph rewriting rules, one can formalise how complex structures evolve over time. By formally analysing models, both statically and dynamically, engineers can verify that the system under design behaves as expected, prior to implementing it and perhaps discovering later that it does not, thus wasting huge investments. This book fills a much needed gap in the literature. It is the first comprehensive and systematic presentation of graph-based modelling and applications to the practice of software engineering. It can be of use in teaching, to present the foundat
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