A Service-Oriented Component-Based Framework for Dynamic Reconfiguration Modeling Targeting SystemC/TLM

Table 6

Evaluation of the ATL transformations.

Metric	Value	Quality attributes
		A1	A2	A3	A4	A5	A6	A7
# lines of code	286	+	+					−
# lines of comments	8	+
Balance of a unit	1	+		+	+
# matched rules	26	+	+					−
# lazy matched rules	0
# called rules	0
Average number of bindings per rule	3.42	+	+			−	+
# rules with a filter condition on an input pattern	1	+	+
Rule complexity increase	0.69	+						−
# helpers	2	+	+	−
# calls to OCL functions	1	+	+
Average helper cyclomatic complexity	1	+
# input models	1		+	+				−
# output models	1		+	+
Input metamodel coverage	96.29					+		+
Output metamodel coverage	100					+		+
Transformation approach	Declarative	+	+					−

A1: understandability; A2: modifiability; A3: reusability; A4: modularity; A5: completeness; A6: consistency; A7: complexity; +: positive effect; −: negative effect.