Eclipse EMF Compare 3.3.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
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Release

3.3.0

Description

EMF Compare 3.3.0 brings some more user experience improvements as compared to 3.2.0, most notably on the grouping and filtering capabilities of the user interface. This version also introduces an automatic migration feature for the Papyrus profiles in order to support their evolution throughout the compared versions.

API Certification

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Architectural Issues

No change

Security Issues

None

Non-Code Aspects

Continuous Integration

The project is built from the EMF Compare HIPP through Tycho. A nightly is built once a day if the SCM polling sees a change from the last build.

Unit Tests

2029 unit tests launched on every build.

Code coverage is about 75% of the code base.

Code Quality

Common formatter and compiler configuration used throughout the whole project's plug-ins.

Checkstyle activated on all distinct plug-ins.

Eclemma used on a regular basis to ensure and improve code coverage from the unit tests.

Yourkit java Profiler used on a regular basis to improved performances and avoid bottlenecks.

Findbugs launched on a regular basis to avoid detectable bugs.

Javadoc represents about 40% of the java source code.

An analysis of the code base is available on Open Hub.

Usability Details

EMF Compare is conforming to the Eclipse user interface guidelines.

Localization : integrated into Babel

End of Life

There are no outstanding issues with the API state of this release. All mehods and classes that face deletion have been marked as deprecated with instructions on how to switch to the new behavior, and will stay in the code base until the next release.

Standards

No standard exists concerning the model comparison, though EMF Compare works nicely with any standard-based metamodel.

Since the 1.2 release a specific support for the UML standard is included in EMF Compare. This is also included in the 3.* stream.