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Collaboration and source code driven bottom-up product line engineering

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Jabier Martinez,

Anil Kumar ThurimellaAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '12: Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2

Pages 196 - 200

https://doi.org/10.1145/2364412.2364445

Published: 02 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Companies that develop similar software systems often transition from single-system development to software product line development. In this transition, reusable assets are identified and incrementally created over a period of time. Bottom-up Software Product Line Engineering approaches aid stakeholders to identify variability from the legacy artifacts. One of these artifacts is the legacy source code. In this paper, we contribute the Collaboration and Source Code Driven Bottom-up approach, with two main enhancements. We apply clone detection and architecture reengineering techniques for identifying variability from the legacy artifacts. These techniques which have been traditionally used for maintaining software are now used for identifying variability and analyze code coupling and cohesion from the legacy code. Our second enhancement is improving stakeholder collaboration by guiding the domain experts in order to decide on variability. In particular, we apply Questions, Options and Criteria technique for capturing rationale and supporting collaboration.

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Collaboration and source code driven bottom-up product line engineering
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      1. Reusability
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SPLC '12: Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2

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DOI:10.1145/2364412

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2022.107084
Liu CMacedo NCunha A(2022)Merging cloned Alloy models with colorful refactoringsScience of Computer Programming10.1016/j.scico.2022.102829220(102829)Online publication date: Aug-2022
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2022.102829
Liu CMacedo NCunha A(2020)Merging Cloned Alloy Models with Colorful RefactoringsFormal Methods: Foundations and Applications10.1007/978-3-030-63882-5_11(173-191)Online publication date: 19-Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63882-5_11
Fenske WMeinicke JSchulze SSchulze SSaake G(2017)Variant-preserving refactorings for migrating cloned products to a product line2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)10.1109/SANER.2017.7884632(316-326)Online publication date: Feb-2017
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Martinez JZiadi TBissyandé TKlein JLe Traon YSchmidt D(2015)Bottom-up adoption of software product linesProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Product Line10.1145/2791060.2791086(101-110)Online publication date: 20-Jul-2015
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