A Co-Evolution Analysis for Software Product Lines

Benlarabi, Anissa; Khtira, Amal; Asri, Bouchra El

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“…Then we used cladistics to construct the evolutionary trees of the platform and the derived products. Thus, we compared the resulted trees, and finally we applied the mathematical analysis that we elaborated whose aim is the restoration of the perfect co-evolution of the platform and its products [9].…”

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Analyzing Trends in Software Product Lines Evolution Using aCladistics Based Approach

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A software product line is a complex system the aim of which is to provide a platform dedicated to large reuse. It necessitates a great investment. Thus, its ability to cope with customers' ever-changing requirements is among its key success factors. Great effort has been made to deal with the software product line evolution. In our previous works, we carried out a classification of these works to provide an overview of the used techniques. We also identified the following key challenges of software product lines evolution: the ability to predict future changes, the ability to define the impact of a change easily and the improvement in understanding the change. We have already tackled the second and the third challenges. The objective of this paper is to deal with the first challenge. We use the cladistics classification which was used in biology to understand the evolution of organisms sharing the same ancestor and their process of descent at the aim of predicting their future changes. By analogy, we consider a population of applications for media management on mobile devices derived from the same platform and we use cladistics to construct their evolutionary tree. We conducted an analysis to show how to identify the evolution trends of the case study products and to predict future changes.

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Analyzing Trends in Software Product Lines Evolution Using aCladistics Based Approach

2015

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Benlarabi

Khtira

Asri

2018

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Software product line engineering is a development paradigm based on reuse. It builds a common platform from which a set of applications can be derived. Despite its advantage of enhancing time to market and costs, it presents some complications. Among them, the complexity of its evolution because all the components are shared between the derived products. For this reason, the change impact analysis and the evolution understanding in software product lines require greater focus than in single software. In this chapter, the authors present CASPL platform for co-evolution analysis in software product lines. The platform uses evolutionary trees that are mainly used in biology to analyze the co-evolution between applications. The major goal is to enhance the change understanding and to compare the history of changes in the applications of the family, at the aim of correcting divergences between them.

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Learning to Support Derivation of Adaptable Products in Software Product Lines

Benlarabi¹,

Khtira²,

Asri³

2020

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Software product line engineering is a large scale development paradigm based on mass production. It consists in building a common platform from which a set of products can be derived. Under the constraints of continuous evolution and costs optimization, the derivation process must be able to answer customers' requirements and provide adequate products in a short time without defects. However, this purpose cannot be achieved if the customer must wait for the change is implemented in the common platform. In this paper, we describe our work which proposes a framework to manage derivation of adaptable products. An adaptable product is obtained by deriving the most similar product from the common platform and changing it to support the new requirements. The aim of the framework is to give quick response to the customers need while the new requirements are being implemented in the common platform. The framework includes tools for processing natural language requirements, computing the similarity between products on the basis of their requirements, and the product adaptation effort measuring.

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A Co-Evolution Analysis for Software Product Lines

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Analyzing Trends in Software Product Lines Evolution Using aCladistics Based Approach

Analyzing Trends in Software Product Lines Evolution Using aCladistics Based Approach

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Learning to Support Derivation of Adaptable Products in Software Product Lines

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