scholarly journals Master Thesis: The Role of Similarity in Detecting Feature Interaction in Software Product Lines

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyedehzahra Khoshmanesh
Keyword(s):  
Similarity Measures ◽  
New Product ◽  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Feature Interaction ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Feature Interactions ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Master Thesis

As a software product line evolves, it typically introduces new features and includes new products over time. A feature is a unit of functionality. Unwanted feature interactions, wherein one feature hinders another features operation, are a significant problem, especially as large software product lines evolve. This can lead to failures, performance degradation, and hazardous states ina new product. Software product line developers currently identify new, unwanted feature interactions primarily in the testing of each new product. This incurs significant costs, comes late in development, and does not exploit the knowledge of prior feature interactions within a product line.The contribution of this thesis is to leverage knowledge of prior feature interactions in a software product line, together with similarity measures between the features in known feature interactions and the new features, in order to detect similar feature interactions in a new product much earlier in the development process. Results obtained from application of our approach to three small software product lines from the literature showed an accuracy of 69% to 73% and coverage of 71% to 82% in detecting feature interactions. This indicates that the use of similarity measures between features in a software product line can help detect potential feature interactions in the design phase of a newly added product.

Study on Manufacturing Materials with an Aspect-Oriented Modeling Method for Embedded Software Product Lines

2013 ◽  
Vol 771 ◽  
pp. 183-186
Author(s):  
Hua Xiao Liu ◽  
Bing Li ◽  
Ying Jin ◽  
Xue Hang Chi
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Embedded Software ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Modeling Method ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Line Technology ◽  
Aspect Oriented Modeling

For different Manufacturing Materials, various embedded software is often needed to use to configure and implement different functions during the processing of production. In order to improve the reusability of embedded software, this paper combines the software product line technology to present a software product line reference architecture OVM_AO model, gives a detail modeling of the modify code part, meanwhile, gives the rule of transform the model to AOP model, improves the efficiency of the software automate equipped with material.

scholarly journals Development of a plug-in for Variability Modeling in Software Product Lines

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
María Karen Cortés-Verdín ◽  
María Lucía López-Araujo ◽  
Jorge Octavio Ocharán-Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Product Line Engineering ◽  
Variability Modeling ◽  
Software Product Line Engineering ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Line Engineering

Software Product Lines (SPL) take economic advantage of commonality and variability among a set of software systems that exist within a specific domain. Therefore, Software Product Line Engineering defines a series of processes for the development of a SPL that consider commonality and variability during the software life cycle. Variability modeling is therefore an essential activity in a Software Product Line Engineering approach. There are several techniques for variability modeling nowadays. COVAMOF stands out among them since it allows the modeling of variation points, variants and dependencies as first class elements. COVAMOF, therefore, provides an uniform manner for representing such concepts in different levels of abstraction within a SPL. In order to take advantage of COVAMOF benefits, it is necessary to have a computer aided tool, otherwise variability modeling and management canbe a hard tasks for the software engineer. This paper presents the development of a Eclipse plug-in for COVAMOF.

scholarly journals Managing SPL Variabilities in UAV Simulink Models with Pure::variants and Hephaestus

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Steiner ◽  
Paulo Masiero ◽  
Rodrigo Bonifácio
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Environment Monitoring ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Software Product

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are vehicles that y without a pilot and are able to execute dierent types of missions, such as surveillance, topographical data collection, and environment monitoring. This motivates some degree of variability in the controlling software of UAV (usually specied using Simulink models), even though it is also possible to reuse software in this domain using systematic approaches such as Software Product Lines (SPLs). In this paper we present a catalog of patterns to represent variable features in Simulink and show how to construct a simple software product line for an UAV. We also show mechanisms and an infrastructure for conguring Simulink assets, using two tools to manage variabilities: Pure::variants and Hephaestus. These tools are also compared according to a set of characteristics.

scholarly journals Software Product Lines: Report of the 2009 U.S. Army Software Product Line Workshop

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Bergey ◽  
Sholom Cohen ◽  
Patrick Donohoe ◽  
Matthew J. Fisher ◽  
Lawrence G. Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Product

A Method for Prioritizing Integration Testing in Software Product Lines Based on Feature Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 575-600
Author(s):  
Zahra Akbari ◽  
Sedigheh Khoshnevis ◽  
Mehran Mohsenzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Integration Testing ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Integration Test ◽  
Software Product

Testing activities for software product lines should be different from that of single software systems, due to significant differences between software product line engineering and single software system development. The cost of testing in software product line is generally higher compared with single software systems; therefore, there should exist a certain balance between cost, quality of final products, and the time of performing testing activities. As decreasing testing cost is an important challenge in software product line integration testing, the contribution of this paper is in introducing a method for early integration testing in software product lines based on feature model (FM) by prioritizing test cases in order to decrease integration testing costs in SPLs. In this method, we focus on reusing domain engineering artifacts and prioritized selection and execution of integration test cases. It also uses separation of concerns and pruning techniques on FMs to help prioritize the test cases. The method shows to be promising when applied to some case studies in the sense that it decreases the costs of performing integration test by about 82% and also detects about 44% of integration faults in domain engineering.

scholarly journals Software Product Lines: Report of the 2010 US Army Software Product Line Workshop

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Bergey ◽  
Gary Chastek ◽  
Sholom Cohen ◽  
Patrick Donohoe ◽  
Lawrence G. Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Software Product

Software Product Lines to Faster Achieving Productivity

2010 ◽  
pp. 121-127
Author(s):  
Sathya Ganeshan ◽  
Muthu Ramachandran
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Everyday Reality

Software Product Lines have been in the scene of software development since the 1970s. Throughout this time, it has changed from a hot topic that was discussed in universities and seminar halls as future goal of companies, to an everyday reality. There are many crucial aspects that decide the success of a software product line. One among them is the identification, development and maintenance of core assets. This chapter aims at providing a brief introduction to this area of software product lines and ways to improve productivity through efficient core asset management.

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