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Reverse engineering challenges of the feedback scenario in co-evolving product lines

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Robert Hellebrand,

Michael Schulze,

Uwe RysselAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '17: Proceedings of the 21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B

Pages 53 - 56

https://doi.org/10.1145/3109729.3109735

Published: 25 September 2017 Publication History

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Product Line Engineering (PLE) with feature models has gained reputation in science and industry as a successful reuse strategy in the domain of systems engineering. But, initially developing every new functionality as a reusable feature does not always comply to companies' needs. To be able to profit from PLE and being free to develop new functionality in the scope of a specific product variant, a proper update and feedback strategy has to be in place to avoid that variants decouple from the product line and reuse is no longer possible. In this work we discuss the challenges that need to be solved to realize a successful feedback strategy based on four examples from industry.

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Horcas JPinto MFuentes L(2022)Empirical analysis of the tool support for software product linesSoftware and Systems Modeling10.1007/s10270-022-01011-222:1(377-414)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2022
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Reverse engineering challenges of the feedback scenario in co-evolving product lines
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines

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DOI:10.1145/3109729

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Díaz OMedeiros RAl-Hajjaji M(2024)How can feature usage be tracked across product variants? Implicit Feedback in Software Product LinesJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2024.112013211:COnline publication date: 2-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2024.112013
Horcas JPinto MFuentes L(2022)Empirical analysis of the tool support for software product linesSoftware and Systems Modeling10.1007/s10270-022-01011-222:1(377-414)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-022-01011-2
Gerling LSchmid K(2020)Syntax-preserving slicing of C-based software product linesProceedings of the 14th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems10.1145/3377024.3377029(1-5)Online publication date: 5-Feb-2020
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