SCCharts Development

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This is a light-weight tutorial for developing transformations/additions for SCCharts in KIELER. It will use Eclipse, EMF, and Xtend and therefore, finishing the corresponding tutorials could prove useful. However, they are not a strict requirement for this tutorial.

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The KiCo part "Model-to-Model Transformations with KiCo" is outdated. We will update this tutorials in the near future.

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= Preliminaries =

There's a few things to do before we dive into the tutorial itself. For example, to do Eclipse programming, you will have to get your hands on an Eclipse installation first. Read through the following sections to get ready for the tutorial tasks.

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== Required Software ==

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As you're going to develop for KIELER SCCharts, we recommend to use the Oomph setup as described in [[doc:KIELER.Getting Eclipse]] (Oomph Setup). However, you could also install all componentes by yourself. Please consult the other tutorials if you want to do that. You would need to install the Modeling Tools and the Xtext SDK.

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Additionally, install the** EcoreViz** from the **Ecore Model Visualization** category from the **OpenKieler** update site: [[http:~~/~~/rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~~~kieler/updatesite/nightly-openkieler/>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~kieler/updatesite/nightly-openkieler/||rel="nofollow" shape="rect"]]. For this, choose //Install New Software...// in the //Help// tab.

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Due to the ongoing migration you have to install a workaround for EcoreViz to function. You have to install the KLighD diagram view directly from [[http:~~/~~/rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~~~kieler/updatesite/release_pragmatics_2016-02/>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~kieler/updatesite/release_pragmatics_2016-02/||shape="rect"]]. Select the features

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* KIELER Lightweight Diagrams - Developer Resources and

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* KIELER Lightweight Diagrams Generic Diagram View.

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(This step should be obsolete in the near future.)

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[[image:attach:InstallEcoreViz.png]]

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[[image:attach:InstallKLighDFeatures.png]]

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== Recommended Tutorials ==

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We recommend that you have completed the following tutorials before diving into this one (or at least sweep over them). However, this is not a strict requirement.

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1. [[doc:KIELER.Development.Tutorials.Eclipse.Eclipse Plug-ins and Extension Points.WebHome]]

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1. [[doc:KIELER.Development.Tutorials.Eclipse.Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).WebHome]]

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11. This tutorial needs the turingmachine.ecore and the controller you've implemented in the EMF tutorial. If you did not complete the EMF tutorial, you may download a working turing machine here... (in the future).

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[[Xtend 2 - Model Transformations>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/confluence/display/TUT/Xtend+2+-+Model+Transformations||shape="rect"]]

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== Helpful Tutorials ==

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When developing within the KIELER semantics team, you will most likely be confronted with Xtext and [[doc:KIELER.Lightweight Diagrams (KLighD)]]. The following tutorials may be helpful but not required for this tutorial.

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1. [[doc:KIELER.Development.Tutorials.Xtext and Xtend.Xtext 2 - Creating a Grammar from Scratch.WebHome]]

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1. [[doc:KIELER.Development.Tutorials.Diagrams and Layout.Lightweight Diagrams (KLighD).WebHome]]

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== Finding Documentation ==

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You can find additional documentation to the aforementioned topics in the corresponding tutorials. If you get stuck with a particular topic, please consult that tutorial. For SCCharts, you should read the SCCharts confluence page in our wiki: [[doc:KIELER.SCCharts (pre 1\.0)]]

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As usual, documentation often gets obsolete or wrong if not maintained regularly, so please, if you find missing, misleading, or outdated information, please let us know.

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Additionally, the following list will give a short overview over the most important publications:

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* (% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %)**Main paper:**

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Reinhard von Hanxleden and Björn Duderstadt and Christian Motika and Steven Smyth and Michael Mendler and Joaquín Aguado and Stephen Mercer and Owen O’Brien. SCCharts: Sequentially Constructive Statecharts for Safety-Critical Applications. In (% class="cmti-10" %)Proc. ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design(%%) (% class="cmti-10" %)and Implementation (PLDI’14)(%%), Edinburgh, UK, June 2014. ACM. [[pdf>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/downloads/papers/pldi14.pdf||shape="rect"]](% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %), (%%)[[talk>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/downloads/talks/pldi14-talk.pdf||shape="rect"]](% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %), (%%)[[bib>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/cgi-bin/bibcgi.cgi?key=vonHanxledenDM+14||shape="rect"]]

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* **SLIC Compilation:**

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(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %)Christian Motika and Steven Smyth and Reinhard von Hanxleden. Compiling SCCharts—A Case-Study on Interactive Model-Based Compilation. In (% class="cmti-10" %)Proceedings of(%%) (% class="cmti-10" %)the 6th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal(%%) (% class="cmti-10" %)Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA 2014)(%%), volume 8802 of (% class="cmti-10" %)LNCS(%%), page 443–462, Corfu, Greece, October 2014. The [[original publication>>url:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45234-9||shape="rect"]](% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %) is available at (%%)[[http:~~/~~/link.springer.com>>url:http://link.springer.com/||shape="rect"]](% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %). (%%)[[pdf>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/downloads/papers/isola14.pdf||shape="rect"]](% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %), (%%)[[bib>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/cgi-bin/bibcgi.cgi?key=MotikaSvH14||shape="rect"]]

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* **Theoretical Foundations:**

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(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %)Reinhard von Hanxleden and Michael Mendler and Joaquín Aguado and Björn Duderstadt and Insa Fuhrmann and Christian Motika and Stephen Mercer and Owen O’Brien and Partha Roop. Sequentially Constructive Concurrency—A Conservative Extension of the Synchronous Model of Computation. (% class="cmti-10" %)ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing(%%) (% class="cmti-10" %)Systems, Special Issue on Applications of Concurrency to System Design(%%), 13(4s):144:1–144:26, July 2014. [[pdf>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/downloads/papers/tecs14.pdf||shape="rect"]](% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %), (%%)[[bib>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/cgi-bin/bibcgi.cgi?key=vonHanxledenMA+14||shape="rect"]]

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* **Overview and High-Level Transformations in Detail:**

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(% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %)Reinhard von Hanxleden and Björn Duderstadt and Christian Motika and Steven Smyth and Michael Mendler and Joaquín Aguado and Stephen Mercer and Owen O’Brien. SCCharts: Sequentially Constructive Statecharts for Safety-Critical Applications. Technical Report 1311, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Department of Computer Science, December 2013. ISSN 2192-6247. (%%)[[pdf>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/downloads/papers/report-1311.pdf||shape="rect"]](% style="color: rgb(0,0,0);" %), (%%)[[bib>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~~biblio/cgi-bin/bibcgi.cgi?key=vonHanxledenDM+13b||shape="rect"]]

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= The SCCharts Metamodel =

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Navigate to the {{code language="none"}}models{{/code}} folder of the plugin {{code language="none"}}de.cau.cs.kieler.sccharts{{/code}}. Here, open the {{code language="none"}}sccharts.ecore{{/code}} and right-click on the {{code language="none"}}sccharts.ecore{{/code}} file and select //Visualize Ecore Model//. Since you also installed **EcoreViz** from the OpenKieler Suite, you should now see a graphical representation of the SCCharts metamodel. Every SCChart will be a model of this metamodel.

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To see all class information check //Attributes/Literals// in the Diagram Options on the right.

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EcoreViz gives you an overview over the selected Ecore diagram. However, Ecore model definitions may depend on other Ecore definitions that are not displayed in the diagram. You can open new diagrams for these Ecore files as described before or use the Ecore tree editor to inspect all classes.

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Try to understand most parts of the metamodel. You don't have to understand every detail but you should get the idea.

==== Model Task ====

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1. How do you describe a superstate in the model?

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1. Name the class of the root element of an SCChart.

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1. What is a valued object?

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1. How do you get the type of an interface variable?

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1. What other metamodels are needed for the SCCharts metamodel and write down which one is needed for what?

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* Write down (on paper, text editor, etc) how the following SCChart models look like

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*1. Open the wiki page that explains the [[doc:KIELER.Textual SCCharts Language SCT]].

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*11. write down (on paper or text editor, etc) how the model of that SCChart looks like.

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*1. And finally a more sophisticated model: Write down the model of ABO (from [[doc:KIELER.Examples]]).

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By the way: You can //right-click// on the Diagram View surface and select //Save as image...// to create a screenshot!

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[[image:attach:sccharts_metamodel.png]]

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[[image:attach:sccharts_metamodel_treeEditor.png]]

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[[image:attach:KLighDSaveAsImage.png]]

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= Creating SCCharts Models Programmatically =

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== Creating a Test Project ==

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We need a project for testing. Do the following:

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* If you used the standard KIELER Oomph installation setup, create a new Working Set named Tutorial in the Package Explorer. Then...

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* Add the project that contains the sccharts metamodel as a dependency of your new project through the //Plugin Manifest Editor//.

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* Create a simple Java class that implements a main method. Hint: In a new Java class, simply type main and hit Ctrl+Space. Eclipse content assist will create the method for you.

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== Creating a Model ==

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To create a model programmatically you cannot directly use the Java classes generated for the model. Instead, the main package contains interfaces for all of your model object classes. The {{code language="none"}}impl{{/code}} package contains the actual implementation and the {{code language="none"}}util{{/code}} package contains some helper classes. Do not instantiate objects directly by manually calling {{code language="none"}}new{{/code}}. EMF generates a Factory to create new objects. The factory itself uses the singleton pattern to get access to it:

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SCChartsFactory sccFactory = SCChartsFactory.eINSTANCE;

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Important: The SCCharts grammar is build on top of several other grammars. Therefore, not all language objects can be found in the SCCharts factory. For example, all expression elements are part of the KExpressions grammar and hence, have their own factory. If you need other factories, don't forget to add the corresponding plugin to your plugin dependency list.

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KExpressionsFactory kFactory = KExpressionsFactory.eINSTANCE;

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For all simple attributes, there are getter and setter methods:

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state.getOutgoingTransitions().add(transition);

You may have noticed that is was not necessary to add a dependency for the kexpressions classes. The SCCharts plugin reexports the dependencies of the other EMF metamodels. Look at the plugin.xml in the SCCharts plugin in the dependency tab for more information.

== Saving a Model ==

EMF uses the [[Eclipse Resource concept>>url:http://help.eclipse.org/juno/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/resInt.htm?cp=2_0_10||rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="external-link"]] to save models to files and load models from files. It can use different //Resource Factories// that determine how exactly models are serialized. We will use the [[XMIResourceFactoryImpl>>url:http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/emf/javadoc/2.8.0/org/eclipse/emf/ecore/xmi/impl/XMIResourceFactoryImpl.html||rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="external-link"]] to save our models to XML files:

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Don't worry. You will be experienced enough to add mandatory dependencies quickly in the future. However, for now just add the dependencies to proceed with the tutorial.

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==== Model Creation Task ====

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You are now equipped with the fundamentals you need to create models programmatically. Let's try it:

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* (% style="line-height: 1.42857;" %)The code fragments listed above do not suffice to create a grammatically correct model. Try to generate a model that corresponds with the serialized model listed on the right side.

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*1. (% style="line-height: 1.42857;" %)Run the {{code language="none"}}main(){{/code}} method by right-clicking its class and selecting //Run as// -> //Java Application//. Note that this runs your {{code language="none"}}main(){{/code}} method as a simple Java program, not a complete Eclipse application. EMF models can be used in any simple Java context, not just in Eclipse applications.

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scchart Root {

initial state Init

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= Model-to-Model Transformations with KiCo =

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You can use the [[Kieler Compiler>>url:http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/confluence/display/KIELER/Kieler+Compiler||shape="rect"]] (KiCo) to handle all the model input/output tasks and concentrate on the actual transformation. If you executed the **Model Creation Task correctly**, you should now have a complete running SCT Editor instance that looks like the one on the right. You should see the //KIELER Compiler Selection// n the lower right part of the working space. Here you can select specific transformations that will be applied to the actual model. Simply select a transformation to test it.

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== Creating a new Transformation ==

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Now, you're going to write your own transformation with **Xtend** *drumroll*, a programming language that looks very similar to Java, but which adds some very convenient features. Xtend code compiles to Java and and was developed using Xtext. In fact, once you gain experience working with Xtend you will probably appreciate the power of Xtext even more. Xtend is particularly useful to browse & modify EMF models. You get the point... we like it. :)

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[[image:attach:KielerSCTEditor.png]]

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override getId() {

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@Inject

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Extensions are also just classes. You can add your own to improve the structure of your own projects. In KIELER all extensions end with "Extensions"; except SCChartsExtension for legacy reasons. This will be renamed in after the next snapshot to SCChartsExtensions. So, if you're going to add new extensions to the project, please name them accordingly.

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* Extend your transformation so that it is applied on all states (except the root state). Try your new transformation with ABO. The result should look like the example on the right.

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== The existing Compilation Chain ==

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Congratulations. You added and executed your own KiCo transformation. Nevertheless, often you want to extend the existing compilation chain. To do this, you proceed as before but instead of creating your own compilation chain, you must modify the existing chains (e.g. the netlist compilation in de.cau.cs.kieler.sccharts.ui). To add a specific transformation at a specific point in the chain, you must tell KiCo what features are required for the transformation. For that you must override the method getRequiredFeatureIds and return a set with all required features.

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= Model-to-Model Transformations between Metamodels =

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Transformations from one model to another may be performed within the same metamodel or from metamodel to a different metamodel. Both methods are used in KIELER and in principle they do not really differ in implementation. Nevertheless, if working within the same metamodel you should keep in mind that you're potentially changing the actual model instead of changing another instance (after copying). When transforming to another metamodel, you're always generating a new model. So there is no in-place transformation. Both is possible. Just make sure that you know what you're doing.

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Now, you're going to transform the normalized form of HandleA from ABO to an SCG. The Sequentially Constructive Graph is a control-flow graph which can be seen as another representation of the same program. The SCG of the normalized version of ABO's HandleA is depicted on the right.

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input output bool A;

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output bool O2;

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[[image:attach:abo_scg_HandleA.png]]

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The next figure depicts the direct mapping from normalized SCCharts to their corresponding SCG.

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Inspect the metamodel of the SCGs in plugin de.cau.cs.kieler.scg. SCGs are used for analyses and optimization and include a lot of additional elements. However, for this tutorial it should be sufficient to look at the SCGraph class, its nodes attribute, the important node classes and the controlflow class. Important nodes for this SCG are entry, exit, assignment, conditional,

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[[image:attach:sccharts-scg.png]]

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==== Transformation Creation Task 2 ====

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Write a transformation that transforms your normalized version of ABO's HandleA into its corresponding SCG.

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* Proceed as before. Create a new plugin (or copy your last one) Make sure, you also add de.cau.cs.kieler.scg to your dependencies.

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* Write a transformation that is able to transform {{code language="none"}}ABO_norm_HandleA{{/code}} into its corresponding SCG.

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* **Verify your generated SCG**. If you added your transformation correctly, the SCG should be displayed automatically as soon as selected. If your SCG looks like the SCG depicted earlier, then everything is fine.

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* Check your SCG semantically. Is there anything you could improve/optimize?

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*1. Write a second transformation (just as before) and add it to the transformation chain right after the transformation you already added.

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*1. Optimize the given SCG and compare the result with the previous one.

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*1. Make sure that the two SCGs are still semantically identical.

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