%0 Generic
%A Noten, J. (Jeroen)
%A Mengerink, J.G.M. (Josh)
%A Serebrenik, Alexander
%D 2017
%T A Data Set of OCL Expressions on GitHub
%U https://data.4tu.nl/articles/dataset/A_Data_Set_of_OCL_Expressions_on_GitHub/12706127/1
%R 10.4121/uuid:83317fd5-91f5-4e4b-b475-3e2d8ff12d1c
%K Github
%K Object constraint language
%K Software engineering
%X In model driven engineering (MDE), meta-models are the central artifacts. As a complement, the Object Constraint Language (OCL) is a language used to express constraints and operations on meta-models. The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) provides an implementation of OCL, enabling OCL annotated meta-models. Existing empirical studies of the OCL have been conducted on small collections of data. To facilitate empirical research into the OCL on a larger scale, we present the first publicly available data set of OCL expressions. The data set contains 9188 OCL expressions originating from 504 EMF meta-models in 245 systematically selected GitHub repositories. Both the original meta models and the generated abstract syntax trees are included, allowing for a variety of empirical studies of the OCL. To illustrate the applicability of this data set in practice, we performed three case studies.
%I Eindhoven University of Technology