Towards Performance Engineering of Model Transformation

Model transformations are an essential operation on models which is applied at design time and even at run time. For this, the performance of transformations is an important aspect, which needs to be considered. The current research takes only the improvement of transformation engines into account but there is no method or tool support to help engineers to identify performance bottlenecks in their transformation definition. In this paper we present our proposed approach to develop a method for performance engineering of model transformations. This method should support engineers to improve the performance of their defined transformations by providing visualizations of reasons for performance problems and offering possible refactorings for a transformation which can improve its performance.