Integrating approaches for feature implementation

Behringer, Benjamin

doi:10.1145/2635868.2666605

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“…Several other approaches start to develop combinations of annotation‐based and composition‐based approaches. () However, these are only under progress and require further analysis. Furthermore, it would be advantageous to integrate them into a single framework.…”

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Composing annotations without regret? Practical experiences using FeatureC

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et al. 2017

Softw Pract Exp

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Software product lines enable developers to derive similar products from a common code base. Existing implementation techniques can be categorized as composition-based and annotation-based approaches, with both approaches promising complementary benefits. However, annotation-based approaches are commonly used in practice despite composition allowing physical separation of features and, thus, improving traceability and maintenance. A main hindrance to migrate annotated systems toward a composition-based product line is the challenging and time-consuming transformation task. For a company, it is difficult to predict the corresponding costs, and a successful outcome is uncertain. To overcome such problems, a solution proposed by the previous work is to use a hybrid approach, utilizing composition and annotation simultaneously. Based on this idea, we introduce a stepwise migration process from annotation-based toward composition-based approaches to lower the adoption barrier of composition. This process itself is independent of used implementation techniques and enables developers to incrementally migrate toward composition. We support our approach with detailed examples by partially migrating a real-world system.In detail, we describe the following: (1) our migration process, (2) its application on a real-world system, and (3) discuss practical challenges we face. We implemented the proposed approach and show that appropriate tool support helps to migrate toward composition-based product lines. Based on the case study, we show that the hybrid product lines work correctly and can compete with the performance of the original annotated system. However, the results also illustrate open issues that have to be solved to apply such migrations in practice.

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“…Behringer proposed to unify annotation‐based and composition‐based approaches. The goal is to improve the integration of both techniques, for instance, with adapted tools.…”

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Composing annotations without regret? Practical experiences using FeatureC

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“…However, they focus on describing only general ideas for a combined approach, and on discussing the resulting characteristics (granularity, traceability, etc.). Walkingshaw and Erwig [49], Batory [6,7], and Behringer [9,10] also provide theoretical researches related with the idea of combining composition and annotative approaches. Walkingshaw and Erwig [49] present compositional choice calculus, a formal calculus model to unify composition and annotations, and put it into practice [50] by generating editable documents (views) from a variability-aware abstract syntac tree.…”

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“…These models formalize the concept of module with variation points, the composition of them and the decomposition of the modules into smaller parts, simulating annotations for Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD) [2]. Behringer et al [9,10] propose to unify composition and annotative approaches with adapted tools [10]. In particular, they propose structured document graphs [10] based on the compositional choice calculus [49] to change between composition, annotations, and the combination of both approaches in an SPL.…”

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Integrating the common variability language with multilanguage annotations for web engineering

Horcas

Cortiñas

Fuentes

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1

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Web applications development involves managing a high diversity of files and resources like code, pages or style sheets, implemented in different languages. To deal with the automatic generation of custom-made configurations of web applications, industry usually adopts annotation-based approaches even though the majority of studies encourage the use of composition-based approaches to implement Software Product Lines. Recent work tries to combine both approaches to get the complementary benefits. However, technological companies are reticent to adopt new development paradigms such as feature-oriented programming or aspect-oriented programming. Moreover, it is extremely difficult, or even impossible, to apply these programming models to web applications, mainly because of their multilingual nature, since their development involves multiple types of source code (Java, Groovy, JavaScript), templates (HTML, Markdown, XML), style sheet files (CSS and its variants, such as SCSS), and other files (JSON, YML, shell scripts). We propose to use the Common Variability Language as a composition-based approach and integrate annotations to manage fine grained variability of a Software Product Line for web applications. In this paper, we (i) show that existing composition and annotation-based approaches, including some well-known combinations, are not appropriate to model and implement the variability of web applications; and (ii) present a combined approach that effectively integrates annotations into a composition-based approach for web applications. We implement our approach and show its applicability with an industrial real-world system.

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“…Compositional and annotative integration and/or comparative studies have been carried out in the literature for several different domains, such as embedded systems and software product lines Ferreira Filho et al, 2013;Behringer, 2014). For software process lines or process tailoring/customization there is a lack of such a study type.…”

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An Evaluation of the Challenges of Multilingualism in Data Warehouse Development

Dediź

Stanier

2016

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

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ICEIS 2016 received 257 paper submissions from 42 countries in all continents, which makes it one of the largest conferences in the World in the area of Information Systems, thus demonstrating the success and global dimension of this conference. From these, 42 papers were selected for publication and presentation at the Conference as full papers. These numbers, leading to a full-paper acceptance ratio of 16%, show the intention of preserving a high quality forum for this conference, a quality that we intend to maintain in the future, for the next editions of this conference.The high number and high quality of the received papers imposed difficult choices in the selection process. To evaluate each submission, a double blind paper review was performed by the Program Committee, whose members are highly qualified researchers in ICEIS topic areas.All presented papers will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library and will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus.Additionally, a short list of presented papers will be selected to be expanded into a forthcoming book of ICEIS 2016 Selected Papers to be published by Springer in the LNBIP Series.The technical program of the conference included a panel and 4 invited talks delivered by internationally distinguished speakers, namely: Claudia Loebbecke (University of Cologne, Germany), Sergio Gusmeroli (TXT e-solutions SPA, Italy), Wil Van Der Aalst (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jan Vom Brocke (University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein). Their participation positively contributes to reinforce the overall quality of the Conference and to provide a deeper understanding of the fields addressed by the conference.Moreover, ICEIS 2016 had a Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Information Systems and 1 tutorial. We are thankful to the Conference Co-chairs (Olivier Camp and José Cordeiro) and Program Co-chairs (Slimane Hammoudi, Leszek Maciaszek and Michele M. Missikoff) for their dedication and hard work in organizing these events.We sincerely thank all the authors for their submissions and participation in ICEIS 2016. Furthermore, we would like to thank all the members of the program committee and reviewers, who helped us with their expertise, dedication and time. We would also like to thank the invited speakers for their excellent contribution in sharing their knowledge and vision and the workshop/special session chairs whose collaboration with ICEIS 2015 was much appreciated. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the professional support of the ICEIS 2016 team for all organizational processes. XIIIWe hope that all colleagues find this a fruitful and inspiring conference. We hope to contribute to the development of the Enterprise Information Systems community and look forward to having additional research results presented at the next edition of ICEIS, details of which are available at http://www.iceis.org. Slimane Hammoudi University of Cologne, GermanyAbstract:...

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Integrating approaches for feature implementation

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Composing annotations without regret? Practical experiences using FeatureC

Composing annotations without regret? Practical experiences using FeatureC

Integrating the common variability language with multilanguage annotations for web engineering

An Evaluation of the Challenges of Multilingualism in Data Warehouse Development

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