Characterizing safe and partially safe evolution scenarios in product lines

Gomes, Karine; Teixeira, Leopoldo; Alves, Thayonara; Ribeiro, Márcio; Gheyi, Rohit

doi:10.1145/3302333.3302346

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“…The tools we used for the quantitative evaluation may affect internal validity as they may contain defects. With KConfigReader and FEVER, we rely on tools that have been used in prior studies [13,22,31,33,41]. In particular, FEVER may detect all or may wrongly detect commits matching the templates in the history of the Linux kernel.…”

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“…In the process of product-line evolution, domain engineers may change the feature model, artifacts, and the feature-artifact mapping [12]. This can lead to unintended changes to product behavior [13]. For instance, if a feature A is merged into another feature B, configurations selecting only B and not A represent different product behavior before and after evolution.…”

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A product line is an approach for systematically managing configuration options of customizable systems, usually by means of features. Products are generated for configurations consisting of selected features. Product-line evolution can lead to unintended changes to product behavior. We illustrate that updating configurations after product-line evolution requires decisions of both, domain engineers responsible for product-line evolution as well as application engineers responsible for configurations. The challenge is that domain and application engineers might not be able to interact with each other. We propose a formal foundation and a methodology that enables domain engineers to guide application engineers through configuration evolution by sharing knowledge on product-line evolution and by defining automatic update operations for configurations. As an effect, we enable knowledge transfer between those engineers without the need for interactions. We evaluate our methodology on four large-scale industrial product lines. The results of the qualitative evaluation indicate that our method is flexible enough for real-world product-line evolution. The quantitative evaluation indicates that we detect product behavior changes for up to $$55.3\%$$ 55.3 % of the configurations which would not have been detected using existing methods.

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“…The potential is amplified by several factors. First, a feature model is typically changed less frequently than implementation artifacts [42,54,69]. As a consequence, a new BDD only needs to be created when the feature model changes.…”

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2020

Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Systems and Software Product Line: Volume a - Volume A

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What is the number of valid configurations for Linux? How to generate uniform random samples for Linux? Can we create a binary decision diagram for Linux? It seems that the product-line community tries hard to answer such questions for Linux and other configurable systems. However, attempts are often not published due to the publication bias (i.e., unsuccessful attempts are not published). As a consequence, researchers keep trying by potentially spending redundant effort. The goal of this challenge is to guide research on these computationally complex problems and to foster the exchange between researchers and practitioners.

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“…In the process of product-line evolution, domain engineers may change the set of features, artifacts, and the mapping [11]. This can lead to unintended changes to product behavior [9]. For instance, if a feature A is merged into another feature B, configurations selecting only B and not A represent different product behavior before and after evolution.…”

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Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B

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A product line is an approach for systematically managing configuration options of customizable systems, usually by means of features. Products are generated by utilizing configurations consisting of selected features. Product-line evolution can lead to unintended changes to product behavior. We illustrate that updating configurations after product-line evolution requires decisions of both, domain engineers responsible for product-line evolution as well as application engineers responsible for configurations. The challenge is that domain and application engineers might not be able to talk to each other. We propose a formal foundation and a methodology that enables domain engineers to guide application engineers through configuration evolution by sharing knowledge on product-line evolution and by defining configuration update operations. As an effect, we enable knowledge transfer between those engineers without the need to talk to each other. We evaluate our method by providing formal proofs that show product behavior of configurations can be preserved for typical evolution scenarios. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Software product lines; Software evolution; Maintaining software; Software configuration management and version control systems.

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Characterizing safe and partially safe evolution scenarios in product lines

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