Integrating Software Product Lines: A Study of Reuse versus Stability

Gurgel, Alessandro; Dantas, Francisco; Garcia, Alessandro; Sant’Anna, Cláudio

doi:10.1109/compsac.2012.18

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“…project management, social aspects, knowledge management), however, should be studied to complement it, as aspects of the product itself and its development process are inter-wined [11]. Stability of software product lines and software ecosystems is not covered, as both are different in nature from software systems [12] [13], and require special consideration. Studies about contextual aspects (e.g.…”

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Stability in Software Engineering: Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Research Directions

Salama

Bahsoon

Lago³

2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Stability in Software Engineering: Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Research Directions

Salama

Bahsoon

Lago³

2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Enhancing design models with composition properties

Dantas

Garcia

Whittle

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Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

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A considerable part of software design is dedicated for the composition of two or more modules. The implication is that changes made later in the implementation often require some reasoning about module composition properties. However, these properties are often not explicitly specified in design artefacts. Moreover, they cannot be easily inferred from the source code either. As a result, implicit composition properties may represent a major source of software maintenance complexity. This fact is particularly true with the advent of post object-oriented techniques, which are increasingly providing advanced mechanisms to enable flexible module composition. However, there is little empirical knowledge on how design models with explicitly-specified composition properties can improve software maintenance tasks. This paper reports an experiment that analyses the impact of design models enriched with composition properties on system maintenance. Explicit composition modelling was achieved in the experiment through a conservative approach, i.e., a specific set of additional UML stereotypes dedicated to model composition properties. The experiment involved 28 participants, who were asked to realize four maintenance tasks using UML design models with different levels of module composition details. Our findings suggested that explicit composition modelling contributed to better results in the realization of program change tasks, regardless of the developers' expertise. Users of composition-enhanced models consistently yielded better results when compared to users of plain UML models. The use of explicit composition specification also led to an average increase of 44.7% in the quality of changes produced by the participants.

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Integrating Software Product Lines: A Study of Reuse versus Stability

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Stability in Software Engineering: Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Research Directions

Stability in Software Engineering: Survey of the State-of-the-Art and Research Directions

Enhancing design models with composition properties

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