Variability mechanisms and lessons learned in practice

Zhang, Bo; Duszynski, Slawomir; Becker, Martin

doi:10.1145/2897045.2897048

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“…However, in our research work, we propose an approach that identifies not only the similarities, but also the differences among customized cloned variants. Seven variability mechanisms are characterized and compared in [13]. As a variability mechanism, authors in [14] present a novel feature-oriented programming approach to migrate multiple cloned variants into an SPL.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A novel approach named SPLEVO for supporting the consolidation of customized product copies into a Software Product Line is presented in [6]. Several researchers tackle the problem of extracting FMs or variability of existing customized variants [7,12,13,[15][16][17][18]. Several kinds of artifacts can be considered, including variants descriptions [9,10,[19][20][21], models [22,23], and code bases [8,[24][25][26] or the combination of them.…”

Section: State Of the Artementioning

confidence: 99%

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A Systematic Reuse-Based Approach for Customized Cloned Variants

Mustafa

Fernandes

Ferreira

et al. 2018

2018 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)

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Systematic reuse often becomes possible only after a number of customized cloned variants have already been delivered. Transforming from customized cloned variants to a systematic reuse with the explicit management of variability is beneficial. Hence, industrial companies prefer to adopt a reusebased approach. We propose in this research work an approach that supports the re-engineering of existing customized cloned variants towards systematic software reuse. The approach also eases the process of adding a new variant to a set of customized cloned variants, whenever there is enough implementation similarity between the existing customized cloned variants and the new one. We plan to evaluate our approach in an industrial case study, specifically in a set of customized cloned variants of software applications used by automotive companies. As an initial validation effort, we already have presented our first results to software developers at Bosch. They provided us a positive feedback about the ability of our approach to give an overview of the commonality and the variability of the customized cloned variant. For more robust validation, we propose to use a structured demonstration for the same industrial case study environment with qualitative and quantitive evaluation of the impact.

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Section: State Of the Artementioning

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Section: State Of the Artementioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Reuse-Based Approach for Customized Cloned Variants

Mustafa

Fernandes

Ferreira

et al. 2018

2018 11th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)

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“…To make this possible in an ordered way, each module presented in the Section III-A was implemented as a distinct (physically separated) code unit. This strategy, called compositional approach [12], provides us a direct link between each feature and its implementation, giving us a high degree of feature traceability and therefore easier maintenance over time [13].…”

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Extractive SPL adoption applied into a small software company

Rincón

Muñoz

Martinez

et al. 2016

2016 XLII Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI)

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Acople Tecnológico SAS is a Colombian enterprise specializing in software development whose products use devices for biometric facial and fingerprint recognition. The functional overlap of such products provides an opportunity for systematic reuse, which reduces software development and maintenance costs. In this paper we report our experiences, lessons learned and future work from applying concepts of software product line engineering to evolve three of its different software applications into a software product line. Based on our experience, we explain how we have tailored existing concepts of product line engineering, specifically how we have followed the process thus far, which includes the variability analysis that refers to the study of commonalities and variabilities among a set of software applications, the development of reusable software assets, and the derivation of individual products from the product line.

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Multi-purpose, multi-level feature modeling of large-scale industrial software systems

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Feature models are frequently used to capture the knowledge about configurable software systems and product lines. However, feature modeling of large-scale systems is challenging as models are needed for diverse purposes. For instance, feature models can be used to reflect the perspectives of product management, technical solution architecture, or product configuration. Furthermore, models are required at different levels of granularity. Although numerous approaches and tools are available, it remains hard to define the purpose, scope, and granularity of feature models. This paper first reports results and experiences of an exploratory case study on developing feature models for two large-scale industrial automation software systems. We report results on the characteristics and modularity of the feature models, including metrics about model dependencies. Based on the findings from the study, we developed FORCE, a modeling language, and tool environment that extends an existing feature modeling approach to support models for different purposes and at multiple levels, including mappings to the code base. We demonstrate the expressiveness and extensibility of our approach by applying it to the well-known Pick and Place Unit example and an injection molding subsystem of an industrial product line. We further show how our approach supports consistency between different feature models. Our results and experiences show that considering the purpose and level of features is useful for modeling large-scale systems and that modeling dependencies between feature models is essential for developing a system-wide perspective.

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Variability mechanisms and lessons learned in practice

Cited by 16 publications

References 42 publications

A Systematic Reuse-Based Approach for Customized Cloned Variants

A Systematic Reuse-Based Approach for Customized Cloned Variants

Extractive SPL adoption applied into a small software company

Multi-purpose, multi-level feature modeling of large-scale industrial software systems

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