An empirical study of performance using Clone &amp; Own and Software Product Lines in an industrial context

Echeverría, Jorge; Pérez, Fernánda; Panach, José Ignacio; Cetina, Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2020.106444

Cited by 12 publications

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“…Consequently, they do not define features at a domain level in a formal model, and these features are not consistently documented or made explicit in the code assets. While some organizations adopt a clone-and-own approach [31,74] to handle variability, with many disadvantages [23,32], our work focuses on object-oriented variability-rich systems that manage variability in a single codebase.…”

Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Customizable visualization of quality metrics for object-oriented variability implementations

Mortara

Collet

Déry-Pinna

2022

Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A

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Many large-scale software systems intensively implement variability to reuse software and speed up development. Such mechanisms, however, bring additional complexity, which eventually leads to technical debt, threatening the software quality, and hampering maintenance and evolution. This is especially the case for variability-rich object-oriented (OO) systems that implement variability in a single codebase. They heavily rely on existing OO mechanisms to implement their variability, making them especially prone to variability debt at the code level. In this paper, we propose Vari-Metrics, an extension of a visualization relying on the city metaphor to reveal such zones of indebted OO variability implementations. VariMetrics extends the VariCity visualization and displays standard OO quality metrics, such as code duplication, code complexity, or test coverage, as additional visual properties on the buildings representing classes. Extended configuration options allow the user to choose and combine quality metrics, uncovering the critical zones of OO variability implementations. We evaluate VariMetrics both by reporting on the exposed quality-critical zones found on multiple large open-source projects, and by correcting the reported issues in such zones of one project, showing an improvement in quality. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Software product lines; Software reverse engineering; Object oriented architectures; • Human-centered computing → Visualization systems and tools.

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Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Customizable visualization of quality metrics for object-oriented variability implementations

Mortara

Collet

Déry-Pinna

2022

Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A

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“…It needs to filter out the code that is not going to be reused to develop the new tool, which may be time-consuming due to functionalities scattering or code coupling. In contrast, these tasks are not necessary for using an SPL approach, because here the reuse is systematic and the developer works only with the features to be reused [17].…”

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Wacline: A Software Product Line to Harness Heterogeneity in Web Annotation

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Garmendia³

2022

SSRN Journal

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“…These facts suggest that the tasks are nontrivial. Furthermore, the domain used in this experiment has already been used in previous works [24] [40]. The domain threat appears since we only analyzed the induction hob domain.…”

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confidence: 99%