Granularity in software product lines

Kästner, Christian; Apel, Sven; Kuhlemann, Martin

doi:10.1145/1368088.1368131

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“…Graph PL (GPL) is a product line of small size with intensive feature usage [16] for desktop applications. MobileMedia08 is a product line of small size and moderate feature usage [9] for mobile applications for dealing with multi-media.…”

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Intraprocedural Dataflow Analysis for Software Product Lines

Brabrand¹,

Ribeiro²,

Tolêdo³

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Software product lines (SPLs) are commonly developed using annotative approaches such as conditional compilation that come with an inherent risk of constructing erroneous products. For this reason, it is essential to be able to analyze SPLs. However, as dataflow analysis techniques are not able to deal with SPLs, developers must generate and analyze all valid methods individually, which is expensive for non-trivial SPLs. In this paper, we demonstrate how to take any standard intraprocedural dataflow analysis and automatically turn it into a feature-sensitive dataflow analysis in three different ways. All are capable of analyzing all valid methods of an SPL without having to generate all of them explicitly. We have implemented all analyses as extensions of SOOT's intraprocedural dataflow analysis framework and experimentally evaluated their performance and memory characteristics on four qualitatively different SPLs. The results indicate that the feature-sensitive analyses are on average 5.6 times faster than the brute force approach on our SPLs, and that they have different time and space tradeoffs.

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Section: Study Settingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intraprocedural Dataflow Analysis for Software Product Lines

Brabrand¹,

Ribeiro²,

Tolêdo³

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Finally, some works discuss characteristics of feature implementations in code, such as feature cohesion and coupling [1] or granularity, frequency and structure of preprocessor annotations [12,16]. However, these works are not easily generalizable to address the issue of structural complexity of models.…”

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Quality of Merge-Refactorings for Product Lines

Rubin

Chećhik

2013

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of refactoring related software products specified in UML into annotative product line representations. Our approach relies on identifying commonalities and variabilities in existing products and further merging those into product line representations which reduce duplications and facilitate reuse. Varying merge strategies can lead to producing several semantically correct, yet syntactically different refactoring results. Depending on the goal of the refactoring, one result can be preferred to another. We thus propose to capture the goal using a syntactic quality function and use that function to guide the merge strategy. We define and implement a quality-based mergerefactoring framework for UML models containing class and statechart diagrams and report on our experience applying it on three case-studies.

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“…Most existing approaches to express variability in modelling and implementation languages can be classified into two main categories [KAK08,VG07]: annotative and compositional.…”

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The ABS tool suite: modelling, executing and analysing distributed adaptable object-oriented systems

Wong¹,

Albert

Muschevici

et al. 2012

Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer

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Abstract. Modern software systems must support a high degree of variability to accommodate a wide range of requirements and operating conditions. This paper introduces the Abstract Behavioural Specification (ABS) language and tool suite, a comprehensive platform for developing and analysing highly adaptable distributed concurrent software systems. The ABS language has a hybrid functional and object-oriented core, and comes with extensions that support the development of systems that are adaptable to diversified requirements, yet capable to maintain a high level of trustworthiness. Using ABS, system variability is consistently traceable from the level of requirements engineering down to object behaviour. This facilitates temporal evolution, as changes to the required set of features of a system are automatically reflected by functional adaptation of the system's behaviour. The analysis capabilities of ABS stretch from debugging, observing and simulating to resource analysis of ABS models and help ensure that a system will remain dependable throughout its evolutionary lifetime. We report on the experience of using the ABS language and the ABS tool suite in an industrial case study.

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Granularity in software product lines

Cited by 337 publications

References 56 publications

Intraprocedural Dataflow Analysis for Software Product Lines

Intraprocedural Dataflow Analysis for Software Product Lines

Quality of Merge-Refactorings for Product Lines

The ABS tool suite: modelling, executing and analysing distributed adaptable object-oriented systems

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