Sans Constraints? Feature Diagrams vs. Feature Models

Gil, Yossi; Kremer-Davidson, Shiri; Maman, Itay

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15579-6_19

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“…The algorithm is not always able to integrate all the constraints, but a partial result may be of help to a hybrid system in some cases. Complementarily, [49] proves that all textual constraints can be eliminated at the price of building a new set of features. Unfortunately, the approach is theoretical since the basis for an implementation are laid out.…”

Section: Hybrid Approachesmentioning

confidence: 92%

A Literature Review on Feature Diagram Product Counting and Its Usage in Software Product Line Economic Models

Heradio

Fernández-Amorós²,

Cerrada

et al. 2013

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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In software product line engineering, feature diagrams are a popular means to represent the similarities and differences within a family of related systems. In addition, feature diagrams implicitly model valuable information that can be used in economic models to estimate the cost savings of a product line. In particular, this paper reviews existing proposals on computing the total number of products modeled with a feature diagram and, given a feature, the number of products that implement it. The paper also reviews the economic information that can be estimated when such numbers are known. Thus, this paper contributes by bringing together previously-disparate streams of work: the automated analysis of feature diagrams and economic models for product lines.

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Section: Hybrid Approachesmentioning

confidence: 92%

A Literature Review on Feature Diagram Product Counting and Its Usage in Software Product Line Economic Models

Heradio

Fernández-Amorós²,

Cerrada

et al. 2013

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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“…The algorithm is not always able to integrate all the constraints, but a partial result may be of help to a hybrid system in some cases. Another remedy is proposed in [39], where it is proven that all textual constraints can be eliminated at the price of building a new set of features. The approach is theoretical, but the bases for an implementation are laid out.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Scalable Approach to Exact Model and Commonality Counting for Extended Feature Models

Fernández-Amorós¹,

Heradio

Cerrada

et al. 2014

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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A software product line is an engineering approach to efficient development of software product portfolios. Key to the success of the approach is to identify the common and variable features of the products and the interdependencies between them, which are usually modeled using feature models.Implicitly, such models also include valuable information that can be used by economic models to estimate the payoffs of a product line. Unfortunately, as product lines grow, analyzing large feature models manually becomes impracticable. This paper proposes an algorithm to compute the total number of products that a feature model represents and, for each feature, the number of products that implement it. The inference of both parameters is helpful to describe the standarization/parameterization balance of a product line, detect scope flaws, assess the product line incremental development, and improve the accuracy of economic models. The paper reports experimental evidence that our algorithm has better runtime performance than existing alternative approaches.

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Towards Customer-Individual Configurations of Business Process Models

Becker

Klingner

2012

Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling

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Sans Constraints? Feature Diagrams vs. Feature Models

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

A Literature Review on Feature Diagram Product Counting and Its Usage in Software Product Line Economic Models

A Literature Review on Feature Diagram Product Counting and Its Usage in Software Product Line Economic Models

A Scalable Approach to Exact Model and Commonality Counting for Extended Feature Models

Towards Customer-Individual Configurations of Business Process Models

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