Long-Term Product Line Sustainability with Planned Staged Investments

Savolainen, Juha; Niu, Nan; Mikkonen, Tommi; Fogdal, Thomas

doi:10.1109/ms.2013.96

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“…Savolainen et al discusses how SPLs can be built in a sustainable way. They propose a model of planned staged investments with 2 phases (investment and harvesting) that ensures long‐living product lines.…”

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“…According to a systematic literature review by Penzenstadler et al, the first publications in this area started to surface from 2006 onwards with a steady increase in recent years. The areas sustainability approaches have been proposed, include, for instance, green decision making processes, requirements engineering (RE), architectural patterns, and use of resources …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some work, such as the previous studies, discusses aspects of sustainability in SPLE, but no systematic analysis has yet been conducted to assess how SPLE addresses sustainability concerns.…”

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Uncovering sustainability concerns in software product lines

Chitchyan

Groher

Noppen

2017

J Software Evolu Process

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SUMMARYSustainable living, i.e., living within the bounds of the available environmental, social, and economic resources, is the focus of many present-day social and scientific discussions. But what does sustainability mean within the context of Software Engineering? In this paper we undertake a comprehensive analysis of 8 case studies to address this question within the context of a specific SE approach, Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE). We identify the sustainability-related characteristics that arise in present-day studies that apply SPLE. We conclude that technical and economic sustainability are in prime focus on the present SPLE practice, with social sustainability issues, where they relate to organisations, also addressed to a good degree. On the other hand, the issues related to the personal sustainability are less prominent, and environmental considerations are nearly completely amiss. We present feature models and cross-relations that result from our analysis as a starting point for sustainability engineering through SPLE, suggesting that any new development should consider how these models would be instantiated and expanded for the intended socio-technical system. The good representation of sustainability features in these models is also validated with two additional case studies.

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Uncovering sustainability concerns in software product lines

Chitchyan

Groher

Noppen

2017

J Software Evolu Process

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“…It is classically defined as "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their own needs" [13]. Due to the importance of sustainability attribute for the evolution and longevity of software systems, the IEEE Software for example published a special issue on architecture sustainability, which thoroughly discussed the long-term need for sustainability [4], possible metrics for sustainability [22], and the necessary milestones to achieve it [27]. Our main focus will be on Architecture sustainability, which generally refers to long-term cost-effective adaptation and immense emergence of a system towards diverse kinds of change, such as requirements, environment, business strategies and goals, technology, accidental complexity, and false decisions [4].…”

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Diversifying Software Architecture for Sustainability: A Value-Based Perspective

Sobhy

Bahsoon

Minku

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Although the concept of software diversity has been thoroughly adopted by software architects for many years, yet the advent of using diversity to achieve sustainability is overlooked. We argue that option thinking is an effective decision making tool to evaluate the trade-offs between architectural strategies and their long-term values under uncertainty. Our method extends cost-benefit analysis method CBAM. Unlike CBAM, our focus is on valuing the options which diversification can embed in the architecture and their corresponding value using real options pricing theory. The intuitive assumption is that the value of these options can provide the architect with insights on the long-term performance of these decisions in relation to some scenarios of interest and use them as the basis for reasoning about sustainability. The method aims to answer the following: (1)

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