by Evelyn N. Haslinger, Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Alexander Egyed
Abstract:
Rather than developing individual systems, Software Product Line Engineering develops families of systems. The members of the software family are distinguished by the features they implement and Feature Models (FMs) are the de facto standard for defining which feature combinations are considered valid members. This paper presents an algorithm to automatically extract a feature model from a set of valid feature combinations, an essential development step when companies, for instance, decide to convert their existing product variations portfolio into a Software Product Line. We performed an evaluation on 168 publicly available feature models, with 9 to 38 features and up to 147456 feature combinations. From the generated feature combinations of each of these examples, we reverse engineered an equivalent feature model with a median performance in the low milliseconds.
Reference:
On Extracting Feature Models from Sets of Valid Feature Combinations. (Evelyn N. Haslinger, Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Alexander Egyed), In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2013), Rome, Italy (Vittorio Cortellessa, Daniel Varr, eds.), Springer, volume 7793, 2013.
Bibtex Entry:
@Conference{DBLP:conf/fase/HaslingerLE13,
author = {Evelyn N. Haslinger and Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon and Alexander Egyed},
title = {On Extracting Feature Models from Sets of Valid Feature Combinations.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2013), Rome, Italy},
year = {2013},
editor = {Vittorio Cortellessa and Daniel Varr},
volume = {7793},
pages = {53-67},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {Rather than developing individual systems, Software Product Line Engineering
develops families of systems. The members of the software family
are distinguished by the features they implement and Feature Models
(FMs) are the de facto standard for defining which feature combinations
are considered valid members. This paper presents an algorithm to
automatically extract a feature model from a set of valid feature
combinations, an essential development step when companies, for instance,
decide to convert their existing product variations portfolio into
a Software Product Line. We performed an evaluation on 168 publicly
available feature models, with 9 to 38 features and up to 147456
feature combinations. From the generated feature combinations of
each of these examples, we reverse engineered an equivalent feature
model with a median performance in the low milliseconds.},
bibsource = {{dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-37057-1_5},
file = {:Conferences\\FASE 2013 - On Extracting Feature Models from Sets of Valid Feature Combinations\\On Extracting Feature Models from Sets of Valid Feature Combinations-preprint.pdf:PDF},
keywords = {FWF P21321, FWF M1421, EU IEF 254965},
}