Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.

Lecture Notes in Informatics


Software Engineering 2005, Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs Softwaretechnik, 8.-11.03.2005 in Essen. GI 2005 P-64, 105-116 (2005).

GI, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn
2005


Editors

Peter Liggesmeyer, Klaus Pohl, Michael Goedicke (eds.)


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Contents

A generic difference algorithm for UML models

Udo Kelter , Jürgen Wehren and Jörg Niere

Abstract


It is state-of-the-art to use the Unified Modelling Language (UML) to describe software system models. In order to support cooperative team work a version management system which supports UML models is absolutely necessary. The essential part of such systems is the ability to calculate differences and present them to the developer. This paper presents an approach for computing differences between UML models encoded as XMI files. In contrast to our previous work, we present a generic approach, with which we are able to cover a broad range of UML diagram types. It also does not require persistent identifiers of diagram elements. Our prototype implementation shows, that our difference algorithm used leads to good runtimes in the case of small documents and acceptable runtimes in the case of large documents. Overall, it has a very low error rate, i.e. the quality of the differences is almost optimal.


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