Assessment of product derivation tools in the evolution of software product lines

Torres, Mário; Kulesza, Uirá; Sousa, Matheus Emanuel Tavares; Batista, Thaís; Teixeira, Leopoldo; Borba, Paulo; Cirilo, Elder; Lucena, Carlos José Pereira de; Braga, Rosana Teresinha Vaccare; Masiero, Paulo César

doi:10.1145/1868688.1868691

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“…It includes a graphical modelling environment that visualise relationships of feature in a SPL and supports the automatic derivation of the products. An assessment for other frameworks and commercial tools supporting product configuration in a SPL such as GEARS, pure:variants , Captor, CIDE, MSVCM, XVCL, GenArch is done in (Torres et al 2010).…”

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Automatic Generation of Configuration Files: an Experience Report from the Railway Domain.

Ferko¹,

Bucaioni²,

Carlson³

et al. 2021

JOT

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In recent years, software product line development has been adopted by a growing number of companies. Within software product line development, one way of creating specific products is by using configuration files to control a given set of parameters of the product at run time. Often, configuration files are created manually and this may lead to a sub-optimal process with respect to development effort and error proneness. In this experience report, we describe our work in enabling the automatic generation of configuration files in the railway domain. We discuss a four-step approach whose generation mechanism uses concepts of generative programming. The approach is the outcome of a bottom-up effort leveraging the experiences and the results from our technology transfer activities with our industrial partner, Bombardier Transportation. We evaluate the applicability and the correctness of the proposed approach using the Aventra train family from Bombardier Transportation.Besides, we evaluate the ability of the proposed approach in mitigating the development effort and error proneness typical of traditional manual approaches. We performed expert interviews to assess the industrial relevance of the proposed approach and collect qualitative feedback on the perceived benefits and drawbacks. Eventually, for each of the four steps composing the proposed approach, we identify factors that might affect the adoption of the approach and use these factors for discussing the lessons we have learned.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Automatic Generation of Configuration Files: an Experience Report from the Railway Domain.

Ferko¹,

Bucaioni²,

Carlson³

et al. 2021

JOT

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“…There exist several tools for managing variability in SPLs, and Torres et al present an assessment of some of these tools (Pure::variants, Hephaestus, GenArch, ColorIDE, and XVCL) in the context of SPL evolution [17]. We decided to use Pure::variants and Hephaestus to implement the tool support for our approach, since our goal here is to investigate the use of annotative and compositional methods to manage SPL variability of UVA Simulink models.…”

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Managing SPL Variabilities in UAV Simulink Models with Pure::variants and Hephaestus

Steiner

Masiero

Bonifácio

2013

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are vehicles that y without a pilot and are able to execute dierent types of missions, such as surveillance, topographical data collection, and environment monitoring. This motivates some degree of variability in the controlling software of UAV (usually specied using Simulink models), even though it is also possible to reuse software in this domain using systematic approaches such as Software Product Lines (SPLs). In this paper we present a catalog of patterns to represent variable features in Simulink and show how to construct a simple software product line for an UAV. We also show mechanisms and an infrastructure for conguring Simulink assets, using two tools to manage variabilities: Pure::variants and Hephaestus. These tools are also compared according to a set of characteristics.

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Utilization of Software Product Lines for Generation of Patient Monitoring Systems and Sending Alerts

Araújo

Morais

Valentim

et al. 2013

Procedia Technology

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Assessment of product derivation tools in the evolution of software product lines

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Automatic Generation of Configuration Files: an Experience Report from the Railway Domain.

Automatic Generation of Configuration Files: an Experience Report from the Railway Domain.

Managing SPL Variabilities in UAV Simulink Models with Pure::variants and Hephaestus

Utilization of Software Product Lines for Generation of Patient Monitoring Systems and Sending Alerts

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