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Enhancing the Feature Retrieval Process with Scoping and Tool Support: PAxSPL_v2

Authors:

Luciano Marchezan,

João Carbonell,

Elder Rodrigues,

Maicon Bernardino,

Fábio Paulo Basso, and

Wesley K. G. AssunçãoAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '20: Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B

October 2020

Pages 29 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/3382026.3425767

Published: 27 October 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Software Product Lines (SPLs) are commonly adopted with an extractive approach, by performing a reengineering process in legacy systems, when dealing with variability and reuse became challenging. As a starting activity of the process, the legacy systems are analyzed to retrieve, categorize, and group their features in terms of commonality and variability. Due to the importance of this feature retrieving, we proposed the Prepare, Assemble, and Execute framework for SPL reengineering (PAxSPL). PAxSPL aims at guiding users to customize the feature retrieval for their scenario. In an initial evaluation of the PAxSPL in a real-world scenario, we could observe the need for including scoping activities and implementing a tool to make the framework more adoptable in practice. In this paper, we describe how we performed these improvements. We performed the evolution of PAxSPL by including SPL scoping concepts and activities into our framework as well as developing a supporting tool. We also conducted a pilot study to evaluate how PAxSPL allows instantiating a scenario where the SPL reengineering were conducted. The results show that all artifacts, activities, and techniques from the scenario could be properly represented. However, we also identified a potential limitation during the assembly of techniques regarding parallel activities. The main contribution is PAxSPL_v2 that makes the framework more adherent to industries performing the reengineering of legacy systems into SPLs.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3483899.3483902
Marchezan LRodrigues ECarbonell JBernardino MBasso FAssunção W(2012)PAxSPL: A Framework for Aiding SPL Reengineering PlanningHandbook of Re-Engineering Software Intensive Systems into Software Product Lines10.1007/978-3-031-11686-5_13(319-353)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11686-5_13

Index Terms

Enhancing the Feature Retrieval Process with Scoping and Tool Support: PAxSPL_v2
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines

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Marchezan LAssunção WCarbonell JRodrigues EBernardino MBasso F(2021)SPLReePlan - Automated Support for Software Product Line Reengineering PlanningProceedings of the 15th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse10.1145/3483899.3483902(1-10)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3483899.3483902
Marchezan LRodrigues ECarbonell JBernardino MBasso FAssunção W(2012)PAxSPL: A Framework for Aiding SPL Reengineering PlanningHandbook of Re-Engineering Software Intensive Systems into Software Product Lines10.1007/978-3-031-11686-5_13(319-353)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11686-5_13

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