Название: Graph Transformation for Software Engineers: With Applications to Model-Based Development and Domain-Specific Language Engineering Автор: Reiko Heckel, Gabriele Taentzer
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2020
Страниц: 323
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), djvu
Размер: 10.1 MB
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.
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.
The first part of the book presents the fundamentals in a precise, yet largely informal way. Besides serving as prerequisite for describing the applications in the second part, it also provides a comprehensive and systematic survey of the concepts, notations and techniques of graph transformation. The second part presents and discusses a range of applications to both model-based software engineering and domain-specific language engineering. The variety of these applications demonstrates how broadly graphs and graph transformations can be used to model, analyse and implement complex software systems and languages.
This is the first textbook that explains the most commonly used concepts, notations, techniques and applications of graph transformation without focusing on one particular mathematical representation or implementation approach. Emphasising the research and engineering methodologies used, it will be a valuable resource for graduate students, practitioners and researchers in software engineering, foundations of programming and formal methods.
“This book … 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 foundations of software modelling and verification. It is also a reference book for researchers who are active in software modelling. … I fully share the authors’ point that graph transformations are an extremely powerful and tremendously useful tool that can empower software engineers and help them to develop better and higher quality software. This book is a decisive step in this direction.” [Garlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano]
“I strongly recommend this book to researchers who want to learn about software modelling, and to any senior undergraduate and graduate students who want to be equipped with foundational knowledge and tools to be able to build high-quality, safe software systems.” [Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto]
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