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Cafeo, Bruno, Hunsen, Claus, Garcia, Alessandro, Apel, Sven and Lee, Jaejoon 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6016-8540
(2016)
Segregating feature interfaces to support software product line maintenance.
In:
MODULARITY 2016 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Modularity.
UNSPECIFIED, pp. 1-12.
ISBN 9781450339957
Abstract
Although software product lines are widely used in practice, their maintenance is challenging. Features as units of behaviour can be heavily scattered across the source code of a product line, hindering modular reasoning. To alleviate this problem, feature interfaces aim at enhancing modular reasoning about features. However, considering all members of a feature interface is cumbersome, especially due to the large number of members arising in practice. To address this problem, we present an approach to group members of a feature interface. We argue that often only a subset of all interface members is relevant to a single maintenance task. Therefore, we propose a graph representation that is able to capture the collaboration between members and apply a clustering algorithm to it to group highly-related members and segregate non-related members. On a set of ten versions of a real-world product line, we evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, by comparing the two types of feature interfaces (segregated vs. original interfaces) with co-change information from the version-control system. We found a potential reduction of 62% of the interface members to be considered in a single maintenance task. This way, the effort to reason about features can be reduced.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2020 03:56 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 23:51 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/73725 |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2889443.2889451 |
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