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IsiSPL: Toward an Automated Reactive Approach to build Software Product Lines
Over the past decades, Software Product Lines (SPLs) have demonstrated the
benefits of systematic reuse to increase software development productivity and
software product quality. Of the three adoption approaches, i.e. extractive,
proactive and reactive, the reactive approach seems the most suitable for
software development in practice. The strength of this approach is that it
remains close to classical software development practices. In fact, it avoids a
complete analysis of the business domain and its variability (i.e. proactive
approach), and avoids requiring a set of product variants that covers this
domain (i.e. extractive approach). Nevertheless, despite these advantages, we
believe that the main obstacle of the reactive approach adoption is the lack of
automation of its re-engineering process.
This paper proposes isiSPL: a reactive-based approach that facilitates both
construction and maintenance of an SPL. The construction of the SPL is based on
a quasi-automatic process. The maintenance of the SPL can be made on a
white-box SPL implementation, generated by isiSPL. isiSPL is based on two
steps: first, the identification and integration of the artefacts of a newly
created product into the structure of the SPL; second, the selection of a set
of artefacts and their composition to generate a new product that can either
partially or completely meet the requirements provided for a product intended
by a developer. We have implemented isiSPL and validated its integration and
generation using the two different sets of products from ArgoUML-SPL and
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