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Like any software artifacts, metamodels are evolving entities that constantly change over time for different reasons. Changing metamodels by keeping them consistent with other existing artifacts is an error-prone and tedious activity without the availability of automated support. In this paper, we foster the adoption of metamodel refactorings collected in a curated catalog. The Edelta framework is proposed as an operative environment to provide modelers with constructs for specifying basic refactorings and evolution operators, to define a complete metamodel refactoring catalog. The proposed environment has been used to implement the metamodel refactorings available in the literature and make them executable. A detailed discussion on how modelers can use and contribute to the definition of the catalog is also given. |
