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Recovering object-oriented framework for software product line reengineering

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Wenyun ZhaoAuthors Info & Claims

ICSR'11: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Top productivity through software reuse

Pages 119 - 134

Published: 13 June 2011 Publication History

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A large number of software product lines (SPL) in practice are not constructed from scratch, but reengineered from legacy variant products. In order to transfer legacy products to SPL core assets, reverse variability analysis should be involved to find commonality and differences among variant artifacts. In this paper we concentrate on the recovery of SPL framework which can be represented by an object-oriented design model with variation points. We propose a semi-automatic SPL framework recovery approach with the assumption that involved legacy products have similar designs and implementations. In this approach, we adopt a bottom-up process based on clone detection and context analysis to identify corresponding mappings among design elements in different products. Then we use a top-down process from class level to method level with some heuristic rules to determine the commonality/variability classification and the variability type for each design element. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we conduct a case study on an industrial product line and present comprehensive analysis and discussions on the results.

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Sinkala ZBlom MHerold SPérez JMirandola RChen H(2018)A mapping study of software architecture recovery for software product linesProceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings10.1145/3241403.3241454(1-7)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3241403.3241454
Cardoso MLima Cde Almeida Edo Carmo Machado Ivon Flach G. Chavez CTrinta FFilho MAndrade RRibeiro M(2017)Investigating the variability impact on the recovery of software product line architecturesProceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse10.1145/3132498.3133835(1-10)Online publication date: 18-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132498.3133835

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ICSR'11: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Top productivity through software reuse

June 2011

247 pages

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Sinkala ZBlom MHerold SPérez JMirandola RChen H(2018)A mapping study of software architecture recovery for software product linesProceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings10.1145/3241403.3241454(1-7)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3241403.3241454
Cardoso MLima Cde Almeida Edo Carmo Machado Ivon Flach G. Chavez CTrinta FFilho MAndrade RRibeiro M(2017)Investigating the variability impact on the recovery of software product line architecturesProceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse10.1145/3132498.3133835(1-10)Online publication date: 18-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132498.3133835

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