Automatically composing reusable software components for mobile devices

White, Jules; Schmidt, Douglas C.; Wuchner, Egon; Nechypurenko, Andrey

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“…Usually, product configuration is manually performed; decisionmakers select the desired features in order to fulfil a set of particular product requirements. However, when the variability model grows and allows the configuration of hundreds of possible products, this manual task becomes error-prone and time-consuming Henard et al, 2015;Mazo et al, 2012;Siegmund et al, 2008;White et al, 2008). In a semi-automatic configuration, a software system considers a set of functional and non-functional requirements and generates a set of complete configurations.…”

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A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product lines

Ochoa

González-Rojas

Pereira³

et al. 2018

Journal of Systems and Software

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Product line engineering has become essential in mass customisation given its ability to reduce production costs and time to market, and to improve product quality and customer satisfaction. In product line literature, mass customisation is known as product configuration. Currently, there are multiple heterogeneous contributions in the product line configuration domain. However, a secondary study that shows an overview of the progress, trends, and gaps faced by researchers in this domain is still missing. In this context, we provide a comprehensive systematic literature review to discover which approaches exist to support the configuration process of extended product lines and how these approaches perform in practice. Extend product lines consider non-functional properties in the product line modelling. We compare and classify a total of 66 primary studies from 2000 to 2016. Mainly, we give an in-depth view of techniques used by each work, how these techniques are evaluated and their main shortcomings. As main results, our review identified (i) the need to improve the quality of the evaluation of existing approaches, (ii) a lack of hybrid solutions to support multiple configuration constraints, and (iii) a need to improve scalability and performance conditions.

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“…if a feature A is selected then feature B should also be considered) and business needs (e.g. the cheapest product should be selected) White et al, 2008).…”

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A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product lines

Ochoa

González-Rojas

Pereira³

et al. 2018

Journal of Systems and Software

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Evolving feature model configurations in software product lines

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Galindo

Saxena

et al. 2014

Journal of Systems and Software

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a b s t r a c tThe increasing complexity and cost of software-intensive systems has led developers to seek ways of reusing software components across development projects. One approach to increasing software reusability is to develop a software product-line (SPL), which is a software architecture that can be reconfigured and reused across projects. Rather than developing software from scratch for a new project, a new configuration of the SPL is produced. It is hard, however, to find a configuration of an SPL that meets an arbitrary requirement set and does not violate any configuration constraints in the SPL.Existing research has focused on techniques that produce a configuration of an SPL in a single step. Budgetary constraints or other restrictions, however, may require multi-step configuration processes. For example, an aircraft manufacturer may want to produce a series of configurations of a plane over a span of years without exceeding a yearly budget to add features.This paper provides three contributions to the study of multi-step configuration for SPLs. First, we present a formal model of multi-step SPL configuration and map this model to constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Second, we show how solutions to these SPL configuration problems can be automatically derived with a constraint solver by mapping them to CSPs. Moreover, we show how feature model changes can be mapped to our approach in a multi-step scenario by using feature model drift. Third, we present empirical results demonstrating that our CSP-based reasoning technique can scale to SPL models with hundreds of features and multiple configuration steps.

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An Approach to Model-Based Development of Context-Aware Adaptive Systems

Hussein

Han

Colman

2011

2011 IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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Many software systems need to be developed with adaptation in mind, where at runtime they need to detect changes in their operating environments and adapt themselves to cope with these changes while achieving or preserving the overall system goals. In recent years, there has been much research in the communities of context-aware systems and selfadaptive systems with their own foci. However, addressing context awareness and self-adaptation in a consistent and integrated manner remains a major challenge. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to modeling and realizing such context-aware adaptive software systems. Our approach explicitly separates but relates the context model and the system model, so that their relationships, changes, and change impacts across the system and its contexts can be clearly captured and managed. In particular, we differentiate management context from operational context as to whether or not context changes cause system adaptation or not. To enable runtime changes to the system, its contexts, and their relationships, they all have their runtime representation, so that they can be manipulated and managed at runtime. Our component model realizing the approach directly supports interface definitions for context and management as well as functionality. Furthermore, we have developed a tool to generate the system implementations from their models and to test their context-aware adaptive behavior. We demonstrate our approach through the modeling and realization of a context-aware vehicle route planning system.

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Automatically composing reusable software components for mobile devices

Abstract: Product-line architectures (PLAs)

Cited by 9 publications

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A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product lines

A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product lines

Evolving feature model configurations in software product lines

An Approach to Model-Based Development of Context-Aware Adaptive Systems

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