Recommending Mechanisms for Modularizing Mobile Software Variabilities

Abstract

Software Product Lines (SPLs) encompass a family of software systems developed from reusable assets. One issue during SPL maintenance is the decision about which mechanism should be used to restructure variabilities aiming at improving the modularity of the SPL artifacts. Due to the great variety of mechanisms (inheritance, configuration files, aspect-oriented programming), selecting the incorrect ones may produce negative effects on the cost to evolve the SPL. To reduce this problem, the authors propose a Decision Model to help developers to choose mechanisms to restructure variabilities in SPLs.