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Feature Mining for Product Line Construction

Authors:
Yutian Tang
Hareton Leung

Keywords: Software product line; Feature mining; Feature location; Reference checking.

Abstract:
Software product line engineering is a promising ap- proach to generate software assets with systematic reuse property resulting in a significant decrease in development cost. Numerous studies and practical work have proved the reliability, reusability, productivity and the reduced R&D cost attributes of product line engineering. Whereas, the adoption rate of the product line is still relatively low considering the complexity and risk of the task given. It is crucial to have effective approaches to migrate legacy software into product line by mining features in the legacy. Nevertheless, common approaches in feature mining are mainly designed for general systems instead of product line. Therefore, in this paper, we firstly highlight characteristics that a well-designed feature-mining algorithm should contain and pinpoint the shortcomings of existing methods. To enhance the performance of existing approaches for product line, we proposed two feasible directions of research in terms of feature mining for product line.

Pages: 29 to 33

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: April 19, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8394

ISBN: 978-1-61208-449-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from April 19, 2015 to April 24, 2015