Software Product Lines with Design Choices: Reasoning about Variability and Design Uncertainty

Famelis, Michalis; Rubin, Julia; Czarnecki, Krzysztof; Salay, Rick; Chećhik, Marsha

doi:10.1109/models.2017.3

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“…Partial models are also applied in specific areas, such as software product lines. Famelis et al (Famelis et al 2017) discuss the presence of uncertainty in the domain of software product line engineering and proposes different ways to resolve it.…”

Section: Modeling Design Uncertainty Using Partial Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Design-time Uncertainty in OCL Expressions.

Clarisó¹,

Burgueño²,

Cabot³

2022

JOT

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During the software design phase software models are created. These models must be eventually complete and correct. But achieving this state is challenging, and even more in early phases of development, where there are still plenty of unknown details about the system-to-be. This design-time uncertainty especially hinders the definition of those model elements that require a high level of precision: the system's business rules.Nevertheless, waiting for the requirements to be clear to build a complete model is not an efficient option, and often not even a feasible one as this could delay too much the whole project. Instead, uncertain models (i.e., models where only some details are present or are present up to a certain degree of certainty) can be used to advance other aspects of the development process (e.g., building a partial prototype that can help us explore architectural decisions) while, in parallel, we keep refining the models with the stakeholders. This paper proposes an extension to the OCL language to be able to specify uncertain OCL constraints and shows how we could operate with them to perform preliminary quality checks on the partial business rules. Moreover, we propose a prototype tool implementing this approach and discuss potential extensions.

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Section: Modeling Design Uncertainty Using Partial Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Design-time Uncertainty in OCL Expressions.

Clarisó¹,

Burgueño²,

Cabot³

2022

JOT

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“…Most papers that address this type of uncertainty use variability models to describe the possible design alternatives, using different approaches, such as partial models or design space exploration techniques. Partial models are used in general [31,33,34,83,84] or applied to particular domains where uncertainty is unavoidable, such as requirements engineering [85], model evolution [86], software product lines [10,23,32], Web engineering [9], or collaborative modeling [28]. Design space exploration techniques are more common Fig.…”

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Uncertainty representation in software models: a survey

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This paper provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of research work on how uncertainty is currently represented in software models. The survey presents the definitions and current research status of different proposals for addressing uncertainty modeling, and introduces a classification framework that allows to compare and classify existing proposals, analyse their current status and identify new trends. In addition, we discuss possible future research directions, opportunities and challenges.A fundamental characteristic of software models is their ability to represent the relevant characteristics of the system under study, at the appropriate level of abstraction. Software models were initially conceived to design and develop general Information Technology (IT) systems, such as financial applications, enterprise databases or component-based systems, and have proven to be excellent artefacts for representing the basic structure and

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“…An advancement in dealing with variants was the development of software product lines [13], [14], [15]. Methods of managing software product lines undoubtedly decrease the complexity of software, because they help with rigorous planning and reusing software for different market needs; otherwise developing separate software development branches per market need would result in multifold larger codebase.…”

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Revealing the complexity of automotive software

Antinyan

2020

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Softw

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Software Product Lines with Design Choices: Reasoning about Variability and Design Uncertainty

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Managing Design-time Uncertainty in OCL Expressions.

Managing Design-time Uncertainty in OCL Expressions.

Uncertainty representation in software models: a survey

Revealing the complexity of automotive software

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