Visualizing Feature-Level Evolution in Product Lines: A Research Preview

Hinterreiter, Daniel; Grünbacher, Paul; Prähofer, Herbert

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44429-7_21

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“…We thus investigated the complexity of the features in our experiment using the metrics feature size and feature scattering. It has been shown that these metrics allow to estimate the effort required to manually extract and integrate a feature into another product variant (Hinterreiter et al, 2020a).…”

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“…Regarding RQ3, we computed the feature size and feature scattering for all pulls from the repositories. We used these metrics based on definitions in earlier work (Hinterreiter et al, 2020a) to estimate the maintenance effort of the pulled features:…”

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“…The development effort is difficult to predict in an experiment, but certainly depends on the size and scattering of a pulled feature to be integrated. It has been investigated that features scatter significantly in industrial systems, which increases the maintenance effort (Angerer et al, 2014;Hinterreiter et al, 2020a).…”

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Feature-oriented clone and pull operations for distributed development and evolution

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Software companies frequently customize and extend product lines in multiple projects concurrently to quickly deliver solutions to customers. Engineers use a distributed and feature-oriented development process, commonly supported by version control systems to track implementation-level changes. For instance, feature branches are widely used to add new or modify existing features. However, when merging back features to the product line, the information about feature-to-code mappings is usually lost. Furthermore, the granularity of merging is limited to branches, making it hard to extract and merge selected individual features from one product to another. This paper thus presents feature-oriented clone and pull operations for distributed development, which are implemented in the FORCE2 platform. Our evaluation uses variants of the ArgoUML product line to investigate the correctness and performance of our approach. The results show that the feature-oriented operations work with high precision and recall for different cases of feature interactions, also when feature implementations are scattered across many locations in the source code. The performance measurements demonstrate that the operations can be integrated in the typical workflows of engineers.

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“…Previous works [Cafeo et al 2016, Duszynski et al 2019, Hinterreiter et al 2020] discussed the maintenance of FMs. [Cafeo et al 2016] discussed the inherent difficult of decomposing the SPL functionalities into features, which consequently affect the maintenance of FMs.…”

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“…[Duszynski et al 2019], proposed to use relation graphs for improved understanding of FM, supporting model maintenance, evolution, and configuration. [Hinterreiter et al 2020] presented a visualization approach to extend FMs with feature evolution plots as a means to increase awareness about feature-level changes in distributed development scenarios. In summary, previous work agrees with the need for maintaining FMs.…”

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Visualizing the Maintainability of Feature Models in SPLs

Lima

Uchôa

Bezerra

et al. 2020

Anais Do VIII Workshop De Visualização, Evolução E Manutenção De Software (VEM 2020)

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This paper presents data visualizations obtained from the application of 15 measures used to support the maintainability evaluation of Software Product Line (SPL) and Dynamic SPL (DSPL) Feature Models (FMs). To identify these visualizations, we applied a survey to classify a set of 40 measures for evaluating the (D)SPL FMs maintainability. Five visualizations were designed from this classification to analyze the extensibility, static variability, dynamic variability, and structural complexity of the FMs. As result, the experts concluded the designed visualizations assist in FMs maintainability interpretation.

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Complexity of In-Code Variability: Emergence of Detachable Decorators

Perdek,

Vranić

2024

Reuse and Software Quality

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Visualizing Feature-Level Evolution in Product Lines: A Research Preview

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Feature-oriented clone and pull operations for distributed development and evolution

Feature-oriented clone and pull operations for distributed development and evolution

Visualizing the Maintainability of Feature Models in SPLs

Complexity of In-Code Variability: Emergence of Detachable Decorators

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