ESPLA: A catalog of extractive SPL adoption case studies

  • Jabier Martinez
  • , Wesley K.G. Assunção
  • , Tewfik Ziadi

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Abstract

Building Software Product Lines (SPLs) from existing artefacts is known as the extractive approach for SPL adoption. The traditional case is that variants are created with ad-hoc reuse (e.g., copy-pastemodify to quickly respond to different customer needs) and practitioners want to reengineer them to an SPL. Several industrial cases have been presented in the literature to motivate the interest of the extraction and many case studies are used to validate methods and techniques for different activities during this adoption process. However, there is no catalog or repository that gather together case studies and artefacts related to extractive SPL adoption. In this paper we present ESPLA, a catalog of Extractive SPL Adoption case studies that aims to foster the advance of this field by providing comprehensive information about case studies that will be otherwise scattered in the literature. Researchers, practitioners and educators can use this catalog to find the case studies that better fit to their particular needs. Currently, ESPLA contains information about 123 case studies and it is intended to be a catalog that can be updated and extended by the community.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSPLC 2017 - 21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, Proceedings
EditorsWalter Cazzola, Antonio Ruiz-Cortes, David Benavides, Marcello La Rosa, Roberto E. Lopez-Herrejon, Thomas Thum, Javier Troya, Maurice ter Beek, Oscar Diaz
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages38-41
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450351195
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Sept 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2017 - Sevilla, Spain
Duration: 25 Sept 201729 Sept 2017

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume2

Conference

Conference21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2017
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySevilla
Period25/09/1729/09/17

Keywords

  • Extractive software product line adoption
  • Reverse engineering
  • Software product lines
  • Variability management

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