Variability Management in Dynamic Software Product Lines: A Systematic Mapping

Guedes, Gabriela; Silva, Carla; Soares, Monique; Castro, Jaelson

doi:10.1109/sbcars.2015.20

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“…When dealing with feature selection to meet desired quality objectives in DSPL, most of the existing studies are not focused on the interactions between contextual information and NFRs. In addition, such studies do not use any strategy to support the selection of the most suitable configuration [22]. As pointed out by Huebscher et.al.…”

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ToffA-DSPL: An approach of Trade-off Analysis for designing Dynamic Software Product Lines

Carvalho,

Santos,

Masiero

et al. 2023

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Software engineers have adopted the Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPL) engineering practices to develop Dynamically Adaptable Software (DAS). DAS is seen as a DSPL application and must cope with a large number of configurations of features, Non-functional Requirements (NFRs), and contexts. However, the accurate representation of the impact of features over NFRs and contexts for the identification of optimal configurations is not a trivial task. Software engineers need to have domain knowledge and design DAS before deploying to satisfy those requirements. Aiming to handle them, we proposed an approach of Trade-off Analysis for DSPL at design-time, named ToffA-DSPL. It deals with the configuration selection process considering interactions between NFRs and contexts. We performed an exploratory study based on simulations to identify the usefulness of the ToffA-DSPL approach. In general, the configurations suggested by ToffA-DSPL provide high satisfaction levels of NFRs. Based on simulations, we evidenced that our approach aims to explore reuse and is useful for generating valid and optimal configurations. In addition, ToffA-DSPL enables software engineers to conduct trade-off analysis, evaluate changes in the context feature, and define an adaptation model from optimal configurations found in the analysis.

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ToffA-DSPL: An approach of Trade-off Analysis for designing Dynamic Software Product Lines

Carvalho,

Santos,

Masiero

et al. 2023

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“…First, we performed a pilot study in order to get feedback about the length and readability of the questionnaire and ConG4DaS description. After making some modifications to the questionnaire and to the description of ConG4DaS activities [Guedes 2020], we sent it to the researchers of LER (in Portuguese, Laboratório de Engenharia de Requisitos -Requirements Engineering Lab) and the DSPL researchers, who were the authors of the 54 selected studies from our systematic mapping about variability management in DSPL [Guedes et al 2015].…”

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Survey Evaluation of an Approach for Dynamic Software Product Lines

Guedes

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Soares³

2021

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In Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPLs) product configuration occurs at runtime. Modelling variability and configuring the product in DSPLs should consider the context and non-functional requirements (NFRs) satisfaction. ConG4DaS (Contextual Goal models For Dynamic Software product lines) is a Requirements Engineering (RE) approach for DSPL which supports (i) modelling of variability with goals, NFRs, contexts and the relationship be-tween them; and (ii) offers a product configuration based on contexts, NFRs and their priority and interactions. In this paper, we present a survey evaluation of ConG4DaS with RE and DSPL researchers in regard to the perceived usefulness. In the survey, both RE and DSPL researchers perceived ConG4DaS as useful for modelling and configuring DSPLs. However, the RE group gave more positive answers than the DSPL group.

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“…First, we performed a pilot study in order to get feedback about the length and readability of the questionnaire and ConG4DaS description. After making some modifications to the questionnaire and to the description of ConG4DaS activities [8], we sent it to the researchers of LER (in Portuguese, Laboratório de Engenharia de Requisitos -Requirements Engineering Lab) and the DSPL researchers, who were the authors of the 54 selected studies from our systematic mapping about variability management in DSPL [9].…”

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Survey Evaluation of an Approach for Dynamic Software Product Lines

Guedes,

Silva,

Soares

2020

Anais Do Workshop Em Engenharia De Requisitos

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In Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPLs) product configuration occurs at runtime. Modelling variability and configuring the product in DSPLs should consider the context and non-functional requirements (NFRs) satisfaction. ConG4DaS (Contextual Goal models For Dynamic Software product lines) is a Requirements Engineering (RE) approach for DSPL which supports (i) modelling of variability with goals, NFRs, contexts and the relationship between them; and (ii) offers a product configuration based on contexts, NFRs and their priority and interactions. In this paper, we present a survey evaluation of ConG4DaS with RE and DSPL researchers in regard to the perceived usefulness. In the survey, both RE and DSPL researchers perceived ConG4DaS as useful for modelling and configuring DSPLs. However, the RE group gave more positive answers than the DSPL group.

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Variability Management in Dynamic Software Product Lines: A Systematic Mapping

Cited by 12 publications

References 50 publications

ToffA-DSPL: An approach of Trade-off Analysis for designing Dynamic Software Product Lines

ToffA-DSPL: An approach of Trade-off Analysis for designing Dynamic Software Product Lines

Survey Evaluation of an Approach for Dynamic Software Product Lines

Survey Evaluation of an Approach for Dynamic Software Product Lines

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