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Modeling Product-Line Legacy Assets using Multi-Level Theory

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Mattias Nyberg,

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

Pages 89 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/3109729.3109738

Published: 25 September 2017 Publication History

Abstract

The use of non-systematic reuse techniques in Systems Engineering (SE) leads to the creation of legacy products comprised of legacy assets like software, hardware, and mechanical parts coupled with associated traceability links to requirements, testing artifacts, architectural fragments etc. The sheer number of different legacy assets and different technologies used to engineer such legacy products makes reverse engineering of PLs in this context a daunting task. One of the prerequisites for reverse engineering of PLs is to create a family model that captures implementation aspects of all the legacy products. In this paper, we evaluate the applicability of a modeling paradigm called Multi-Level Modeling, which is based on the class-instance relation, for the creation of a family model that captures all the implementation concerns in an SE PL. More specifically, we evaluate an approach called Multi-Level conceptual Theory (MLT) for capturing different legacy assets, their mutual relations and related variability information. Moreover, we map PL concepts like variants, presence conditions and product configurations to MLT concepts and provide formal interpretation of their semantics in the MLT framework. The illustrative example used throughout the paper comes from a real case from the automotive domain.

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Index Terms

Modeling Product-Line Legacy Assets using Multi-Level Theory
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
2. Theory of computation
  1. Theory and algorithms for application domains
    1. Database theory
      1. Data modeling

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de Lara JGuerra E(2021)Language Family Engineering with Product Lines of Multi-level ModelsFormal Aspects of Computing10.1007/s00165-021-00554-333:6(1173-1208)Online publication date: 10-Aug-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00165-021-00554-3
de Lara JGuerra E(2020)Multi-level Model Product LinesFundamental Approaches to Software Engineering10.1007/978-3-030-45234-6_8(161-181)Online publication date: 17-Apr-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45234-6_8
Nešić DNyberg MGallina BHung CPapadopoulos G(2019)Constructing product-line safety cases from contract-based specificationsProceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/3297280.3297479(2022-2031)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297280.3297479

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