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Linking feature models to code artifacts using executable acceptance tests

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SPLC'10: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond

Pages 211 - 225

Published: 13 September 2010 Publication History

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A feature model is a representation of the requirements in a given system abstracted at the feature level. Linking conceptual requirements in feature models to actual implementation artifacts provides for many advantages such as increased program comprehension, implementation completeness assessment, impact analysis, and reuse opportunities. However, in practice, as systems evolve, traceability links between the model and the code artifacts may become broken or outdated. In this paper, we contribute an approach to provide traceability links in a way that ensures consistency between the feature model and the code artifacts, enables the evolution of variability in the feature model, and supports the product derivation process. We do that by using executable acceptance tests as a direct traceability link between feature models and code artifacts. We evaluate our approach and present a brief overview of the tool support we provide.

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SPLC'10: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond

September 2010

531 pages

ISBN:3642155782

Editors:
Jan Bosch
Intuit, Mountain View, CA
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Jaejoon Lee
School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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