scholarly journals Multiple View Interactive Environment to Analyze Software Product Line Tools

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kattiana Constantino ◽  
Eduardo Figueiredo ◽  
Glauco Carneiro ◽  
Raquel Minardi
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Automatic Analysis ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Multiple View ◽  
Shared Set ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Interactive Environment

Software Product Line (SPL) relies on the development of a collection of information systems from a shared set of software assets. In this context, the adoption of SPL in the industry relies heavily on tool support. This paper presents ViSPLatform, a visualization environment aimed at portraying data related to experiments focusing on SPL tools. We conducted a preliminary evaluation to analyze to which extent the platform is effective to support the understanding of characteristics of the SPL tools. The results of this study show that ViSPLatform can somehow indicate strengths and improvement opportunities in the analyzed SPL tools. For instance, they show that Automatic Analysis is a strength of the SPLOT tool and that Interface is an improvement opportunity. (Better if read in colors).

Applying UML Extensions in Modeling Software Product Line Architecture of a Distribution Services Platform

2011 ◽  
pp. 351-368
Author(s):  
Liliana Dobrica ◽  
Eila Ovaska
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Service Architecture ◽  
Product Line Architecture ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Modeling Software ◽  
Specific Variation ◽  
Uml Extensions ◽  
Abstraction Levels

UML provides the means to use specific variation mechanisms to describe hierarchical systems. However, it does not support a description of variation, as it is required for service architecture. UML built-in extension mechanisms refine its specification. This chapter presents the extensions of the UML for representing variations in the software product line architecture of middleware services. The product line is defined as a middleware services framework that includes several products. The products realize different functionality by using various modern software technologies of spontaneous networks. Architecture design produces descriptions at two abstraction levels from multiple viewpoints. The modeling of service architectures benefits from a more familiar and widely used notation that improves stakeholders’ understanding of the architectural artifacts. A standard based notation also enables more extensive tool support for manipulating architecture models.

Hybrid Model using Firefly and BBO for Feature Selection in Software Product Line

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitesh Yadav ◽  
Rita Chhikara ◽  
Charan Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Model ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Feature Sets ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Multiple Variants

Background: Software Product Line is the group of multiple software systems which share the similar set of features with multiple variants. Feature model is used to capture and organize features used in different multiple organization. Objective: The objective of this research article is to obtain an optimized subset of features which are capable of providing high performance. Methods: In order to achieve the desired objective, two methods have been proposed. a) An improved objective function which is used to compute the contribution of each feature with weight based methodology. b) A hybrid model is employed to optimize the Software Product Line problem. Results: Feature sets varying in size from 100 to 1000 have been used to compute the performance of the Software Product Line. Conclusion: The results shows that proposed hybrid model outperforms the state of art metaheuristic algorithms.

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