On the Relationship between Features Granularity and Non-conformities in Software Product Lines: An Exploratory Study

Souza, Iuri Santos; Fiaccone, Rosemeire Leovigildo; Oliveira, Raphael Pereira de; Almeida, Eduardo Santana de

doi:10.1109/sbes.2013.12

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“…Noisy: There are properties that can be considered as "noise" that are common in real scenarios. Some of them can be considered as non-conformities in feature specification [39]. A case study without "noise" should be considered as an optimistic case study.…”

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Feature location benchmark for extractive software product line adoption research using realistic and synthetic Eclipse variants

Martínez

Ziadi

Papadakis

et al. 2018

Information and Software Technology

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Context: It is common belief that high impact research in software reuse requires assessment in non-trivial, comparable, and reproducible settings. However, software artefacts and common representations are usually unavailable. Also, establishing a representative ground truth is a challenging and debatable subject. Feature location in the context of software families, which is key for software product line adoption, is a research field that is becoming more mature with a high proliferation of techniques. Objective: We present EFLBench, a benchmark and a framework to provide a common ground for the evaluation of feature location techniques in families of systems. Method: EFLBench leverages the efforts made by the Eclipse Community which provides feature-based family artefacts and their plugin-based implementations. Eclipse is an active and non-trivial project and thus, it establishes an unbiased ground truth which is realistic and challenging. Results: EFLBench is publicly available and supports all tasks for feature location techniques integration, benchmark construction and benchmark usage. We demonstrate its usage, simplicity and reproducibility by comparing four techniques in Eclipse releases. As an extension of our previously published work, we consider a decade of Eclipse releases and we also contribute an approach to automatically generate synthetic Eclipse variants to benchmark feature location techniques in tailored settings. We present and discuss three strategies for this automatic generation and we present the results using different settings. Conclusion: EFLBench is a contribution to foster the research in feature location in families of systems providing a common framework and a set of baseline techniques and results.

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Feature location benchmark for extractive software product line adoption research using realistic and synthetic Eclipse variants

Martínez

Ziadi

Papadakis

et al. 2018

Information and Software Technology

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“…Some of them can be considered as non-conformities in feature specification [31]. A case study without "noise" should be considered as a very optimistic case study.…”

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Feature Location Benchmark for Software Families Using Eclipse Community Releases

Martínez¹,

Ziadi²,

Papadakis³

et al. 2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. It is common belief that high impact research in software reuse requires assessment in realistic, non-trivial, comparable, and reproducible settings. However, real software artefacts and common representations are usually unavailable. Also, establishing a representative ground truth is a challenging and debatable subject. Feature location in the context of software families is a research field that is becoming more mature with a high proliferation of techniques. We present EFLBench, a benchmark and a framework to provide a common ground for this field. EFLBench leverages the efforts made by the Eclipse Community which provides real feature-based family artefacts and their implementations. Eclipse is an active and non-trivial project and thus, it establishes an unbiased ground truth. EFLBench is publicly available and supports all tasks for feature location techniques integration, benchmark construction and benchmark usage. We demonstrate its usage and its simplicity and reproducibility by comparing four techniques.

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On the Relationship between Features Granularity and Non-conformities in Software Product Lines: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 2 publications

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Feature location benchmark for extractive software product line adoption research using realistic and synthetic Eclipse variants

Feature location benchmark for extractive software product line adoption research using realistic and synthetic Eclipse variants

Feature Location Benchmark for Software Families Using Eclipse Community Releases

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