Evolving Delta-Oriented Product Lines: A Case Study on Feature Interaction, Safe and Partially Safe Evolution

Camargo, Leomar; Fantin, Luisa; Lobão, Gabriel; Figueiredo, Thiago C.; Bonifácio, Rodrigo; Gomes, Karine; Teixeira, Leopoldo

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“…For DOP, there is a significant lack of case studies and, even more, publicly available data [5]. Behringer and Fey [2] present how their tool suite PEoPL can be applied to an artificial case study.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most notably, Camargo et al [5] report on experiences with using evolution templates for the safe evolution of two medium sized (∼5.500 and ∼7.500 LOC) SPLs, both implemented with Delta-Java (older version). However, they focus on the use of evolution templates and do not report on general observations on SPL development with DOP, nor on guidelines or suggestions for improvement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Especially the invasiveness of DOP poses new obstacles for developers. However, experience reports inspecting these expectations are lacking -especially for developers new to the concepts and technology of DOP [5].…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Software Product Line (SPL) captures families of closely related software variants. The configuration options of an SPL are represented by features. Typically, SPLs are developed in a featurecentric manner and, thus, require different development methods and technologies from developing software products individually. For developers of single systems, this means a shift in paradigm and technology. Especially with invasive variability realization mechanisms, such as Delta-Oriented Programming (DOP), centering development around configurable features realized via source code transformation is commonly expected to pose an obstacle, but concrete experience reports are lacking. In this paper, we investigate how DOP and cutting-edge SPL development tools are picked up by non-expert developers. To this end, we report on our experiences from a student capstone SPL development project. Our results show that participants find easy access to SPL development concepts and tools. Based on our observations and the participants' practices, we define guidelines for developers using DOP. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Software product lines; Software evolution.

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confidence: 99%