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Test-based SPL extraction: an exploratory study

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Alcemir Santos,

Eduardo Figueiredo,

Pedro Santos Neto,

João AraújoAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '13: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1031 - 1036

https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480559

Published: 18 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Many software systems have been developed as single products before Software Product Lines (SPLs) have emerged. Although some promising approaches have been proposed, extracting an SPL from existing software products is still expensive and time consuming. This paper presents an exploratory study that relies on a test-based SPL extraction from systems already developed. We aim to evaluate testing as the main mean to locate feature code and different sorts of existing artifacts to support the test-based location. We conduct two case studies starting from the derivation of the SPL feature model to the feature code location. Our preliminary results indicate (i) good rates of precision for feature seed location, where seed means a small portion of the feature code that allows the identification of the remaining portion, and (ii) good rates of recall for locating the whole feature code.

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Index Terms

Test-based SPL extraction: an exploratory study
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages

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DOI:10.1145/2480362

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Assunção WVergilio SGnesi SFantechi A(2014)Feature location for software product line migrationProceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference: Companion Volume for Workshops, Demonstrations and Tools - Volume 210.1145/2647908.2655967(52-59)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2647908.2655967
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