A taxonomy of context-aware software variability approaches

Mens, Kim; Capilla, Rafael; Cardozo, Nicolás; Dumas, Bruno

doi:10.1145/2892664.2892684

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“…As a future work, we will explore how to enrich our taxonomy with others related existing works that explore complementary aspects to context-aware mobile applications. As for example, in [16] the authors present a taxonomy related to context-aware computing and dynamic software variability management.…”

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Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Gomez-Torres

Challiol

Gordillo

2018

2018 IEEE XXV International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing (INTERCON)

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Fusion of sensing mechanisms inside mobile devices (e.g.: GPS, accelerometers) have driven the growth of context-aware mobile applications. Currently, there are building approaches for this kind of applications, but these do not have the flexibility, for example, to derive applications combining different location sensing mechanisms. In this paper, we present a first proposal of a taxonomy of factors that could be considered by context-aware mobile application building approaches, in order to provide variability in the kinds of derived applications. The aim is to generate a discussion that can contribute to the unification of aspects that should be addressed by these building approaches. To complement the taxonomy, we present the analysis of an interview that was conducted with regard to developers who use (or could use) these building approaches. We hope this will enrich the discussion in relation to this kind of approaches.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Gomez-Torres

Challiol

Gordillo

2018

2018 IEEE XXV International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computing (INTERCON)

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“…For example, the mission abortion feature should be included when Tiriba UAV is flying in a controlled/segregated airspace . Relationships between system and usage context features can also be specified in separated feature models . This paper focuses on the analysis of dependability properties, in terms of safety and reliability , of the Tiriba Flight Control System SPL (ie, the control unit shown in Figure [right]), detailed in Section .…”

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“…The context model comprises features describing variation on the SPL environment , ie, where and how system features are intended to be used. The strategy of separating SPL domain modeling into two interconnected feature models is based on the Hartman and Trew feature modeling approach and its refinements . Such approaches allow a clear specification of interactions, eg, requires and excludes , among system and usage context features that may impact on both design and dependability assets.…”

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“…Figure shows the interconnected TFC‐SPL feature and context models. We created TFC‐SPL domain models by following Lee and Kang and Hartman and Trew multiperspective feature modeling approaches and their refinements . These modeling approaches allow separating the specification of system features from usage context features and a more clear understanding of their relationships.…”

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Variability management in safety‐critical systems design and dependability analysis

Oliveira

Braga

Masiero

et al. 2019

J Software Evolu Process

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Safety-critical systems are of paramount importance for many application domains, where safety properties are a key driver to engineer critical aspects and avoid system failures. For the benefits of large-scale reuse, software product lines (SPL) have been adopted in critical systems industry.However, the integration of safety analysis in the SPL development process is nontrivial. Also, the different usage contexts of safety-critical systems complicates component fault modeling tasks and the identification of potential hazards. In this light, better methods become necessary to estimate the impact of dependability properties during Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment.Existing methods incorporating the analysis of safety properties in SPL are limited as they do not include hazard analysis and component fault modeling. In this paper, we present the novel DEPendable Software Product Line Engineering (DEPendable-SPLE) approach, which extends traditional SPL processes to support the reuse of safety assets. We also present a detailed analysis of the impact of product and context features on the SPL design, safety analysis, and safety requirements. We applied DEPendable-SPLE to a realistic case study from the aerospace domain to illustrate how to model and reuse safety properties. DEPendable-SPLE reduced the effort of safety analysis for certifying system variants.

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“…In some approaches, the variability model is augmented with context features [14], [15], [16], [10] or binding time [11], [13] information. Still, verification is restricted to monitoring context changes, checking what features need to be (de)selected and verifying if these features can be rebound at runtime.…”

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Extending Dynamic Software Product Lines with Temporal Constraints

Sousa

Rudametkin²,

Duchien³

2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 12th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS)

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Due to the number of cloud providers, as well as the extensive collection of services, cloud computing provides very flexible environments, where resources and services can be provisioned and released on demand. However, reconfiguration and adaptation mechanisms in cloud environments are very heterogeneous and often exhibit complex constraints. For example, when reconfiguring a cloud system, a set of available services may be dependent on previous choices, or there may be alternative ways of adapting the system, with different impacts on performance, costs or reconfiguration time. Cloud computing systems exhibit high levels of variability, making dynamic software product lines (DSPLs) a promising approach for managing them. However, in DSPL approaches, verification is often limited to verifying conformance to a variability model, but this is insufficient to verify complex reconfiguration constraints that exist in cloud computing systems. In this paper, we propose the use of temporal constraints and reconfiguration operations to model a DSPL's reconfiguration lifecycle. We demonstrate how these concepts can be used to model the variability of cloud systems, and we use our approach to identify reconfigurations that meet given criteria.

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A taxonomy of context-aware software variability approaches

Cited by 22 publications

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Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Context-Aware Mobile Applications: Taxonomy of factors for building approaches

Variability management in safety‐critical systems design and dependability analysis

Extending Dynamic Software Product Lines with Temporal Constraints

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