A Systematic Literature Review of Software Product Line Management Tools

Pereira, Juliana Alves; Constantino, Kattiana; Figueiredo, Eduardo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14130-5_6

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“…Pereira et al [15] carried out a systematic literature review of SPL tools, in order to provide the best tool that fits researchers and practitioners needs. Thus, their research question was "How do the available tools for SPL support the variability management process?".…”

Section: Variability Management Tools: Current Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…", and "What is the maturity level of such tools?". Previous studies [3,9,15] inspired the realization of our systematic review in order to gathering additional information from such tools. In addition, we classified the retrieved tools whether they are validation research, evaluation research, proposal of solutions, philosophical papers, opinion papers, or personal experience papers.…”

Section: Variability Management Tools: Current Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The existing literature presents more than 40 different VM tools, developed by academia and industry, gathered from several different existing secondary studies and industrial surveys, such as [3,9,15]. Such studies and surveys are performed pointing out different aspects from such tools, especially their characteristics, architecture elements, platforms, and availability (open-source/private).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Do Reference Architectures can Contribute to Standardizing Variability Management Tools?

OliveiraJr

Allian

2015

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Exploring Component-Based Techniques for Constructing Reference Architectures

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Variability Management (VM) is one of the core activities for the success of software reuse. Several VM tools developed in academia and industry support mass customization of new software products and decrease time to market. Despite of a significant number of VM tools, in most cases, industry has adopted different techniques for managing variability, including producing their own tools. Such a heterogeneity provides difficulties in establishing VM, product customization and derivation, and standardization. From another perspective, reference architectures (RA) are a special type of software architecture as it encompasses specific domain knowledge, making it easier the development, standardization and evolution of software systems. Concepts from reference architectures can mitigate the lacking of VM tools standardization. Therefore, this position paper presents a vision towards supporting architectural standardization of VM tools, through reference architectures, for achieving a well-recognized understanding of such a domain and promoting reuse of design expertise. In this context, the main contribution of this paper is providing a discussion with regard to reference architectures and variability management tools towards supporting answering the following research question: "Do reference architectures can contribute to standardizing VM tools?". Such standardization is useful as it fosters interoperability and reuse.

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Section: Variability Management Tools: Current Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Variability Management Tools: Current Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Do Reference Architectures can Contribute to Standardizing Variability Management Tools?

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2015

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Exploring Component-Based Techniques for Constructing Reference Architectures

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“…Although there are available tools (Pereira et al, 2014;Bashroush et al, 2017) to partially assist decision makers during the semi-automatic configuration process of extended PLs (e.g. VariaMos , jUCMNav , Kumbang , MO-DAGAME , SALOON , PuMA , SPL Conqueror , and Ascent Desigh Studio and FaMa ), those tools do not offer support to the whole set of the SLR identified configuration constraints and there is also a lack of visualisation mechanisms.…”

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A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product lines

Ochoa

González-Rojas

Pereira³

et al. 2018

Journal of Systems and Software

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Product line engineering has become essential in mass customisation given its ability to reduce production costs and time to market, and to improve product quality and customer satisfaction. In product line literature, mass customisation is known as product configuration. Currently, there are multiple heterogeneous contributions in the product line configuration domain. However, a secondary study that shows an overview of the progress, trends, and gaps faced by researchers in this domain is still missing. In this context, we provide a comprehensive systematic literature review to discover which approaches exist to support the configuration process of extended product lines and how these approaches perform in practice. Extend product lines consider non-functional properties in the product line modelling. We compare and classify a total of 66 primary studies from 2000 to 2016. Mainly, we give an in-depth view of techniques used by each work, how these techniques are evaluated and their main shortcomings. As main results, our review identified (i) the need to improve the quality of the evaluation of existing approaches, (ii) a lack of hybrid solutions to support multiple configuration constraints, and (iii) a need to improve scalability and performance conditions.

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“…The set of all variants and a method to derive them is typically called a product line. Feature modeling has been popular for its simplicity and similar notations have been introduced in commercial 4 and open source tools [10,56] aimed at building product lines and highly configurable systems.…”

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Clafer: Lightweight Modeling of Structure, Behaviour, and Variability

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Embedded software is growing fast in size and complexity, leading to intimate mixture of complex architectures and complex control. Consequently, software specification requires modeling both structures and behaviour of systems. Unfortunately, existing languages do not integrate these aspects well, usually prioritizing one of them. It is common to develop a separate language for each of these facets.In this paper, we contribute Clafer: a small language that attempts to tackle this challenge. It combines rich structural modeling with state of the art behavioural formalisms. We are not aware of any other modeling language that seamlessly combines these facets common to system and software modeling.We show how Clafer, in a single unified syntax and semantics, allows capturing feature models (variability), component models, discrete control models (automata) and variability encompassing all these aspects. The language is built on top of first order logic with quantifiers over basic entities (for modeling structures) combined with linear temporal logic (for modeling behaviour). On top of this semantic foundation we build a simple but expressive syntax, enriched with carefully selected syntactic expansions that cover hierarchical modeling, associations, automata, scenarios, and Dwyer's property patterns.We evaluate Clafer using a power window case study, and comparing it against other notations that substantially overlap with its scope (SysML, AADL, Temporal OCL and Live Sequence Charts), discussing benefits and perils of using a single notation for the purpose. ACM CCS 2012An implementation of the language in the Clafer compiler capable of desugaring the extended syntactic elements (transitions and property patterns) into the basic temporal logic expressions. 2 The parser is generated from a formal grammar specification, whereas the desugarer is implemented manually. A handful of publicly available models; few models combining variability and behaviour have been freely available before, despite their growing importance. Clafer with behaviour combines an established structural modeling paradigm (class diagrams) with a solid semantic model for behaviour (traces). It allows creation of "loose" models (underspecified, with variability, with uncertainty), and mixing looseness of the different aspects. It does not require compartmentalization of behaviour and structure, but allows it. It allows organizing behavioural specifications via structural modeling concepts. Finally, it allows introducing variability uniformly in all the above.We believe that a small language capturing diverse viewpoints can facilitate model driven development of high quality software in more domains and at lower cost than today. We also hope that it will influence design of future industry standards. A small language with unambiguous semantics makes it easier to develop formal analysis tools for models mixing structure, behaviour and variability. Last but not least, we believe that Clafer has good potential for teaching modeling. A small language ca...

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A Systematic Literature Review of Software Product Line Management Tools

Cited by 32 publications

References 39 publications

Do Reference Architectures can Contribute to Standardizing Variability Management Tools?

Do Reference Architectures can Contribute to Standardizing Variability Management Tools?

A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product lines

Clafer: Lightweight Modeling of Structure, Behaviour, and Variability

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