@inproceedings{f718946916dc4c3f9f127591d2c3ad3a,
title = "Name suggestions during feature identification: The VariClouds approach",
abstract = "Reengineering a Software Product Line from legacy variants remains a challenging endeavour. Among various challenges, it is a complex task to retrieve enough information for inferring the variability from experts' domain knowledge and from the semantics of software elements. We propose the VariClouds process that can be leveraged by domain experts to understand the semantics behind the different blocks identified during software variants analysis. VariClouds is based on interactive word cloud visualisations providing name suggestions for these blocks using tf-idf as weighting factor. We evaluate our approach by assessing its added-value to several previous works in the literature where no tool support was provided to domain experts to characterise features from software blocks.",
keywords = "Feature Identification, Feature Naming, Software Product Lines, Visualisation, Word Clouds",
author = "Jabier Martinez and Tewfik Ziadi and Bissyand{\'e}, \{Tegawend{\'e} F.\} and Jacques Klein and Traon, \{Yves Le\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 20th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2016 ; Conference date: 16-09-2016 Through 23-09-2016",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
day = "16",
doi = "10.1145/2934466.2934480",
language = "English",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "119--123",
editor = "Ebrahim Bagheri and Hong Mei and Xin Peng and \{Ruiz Cortes\}, Antonio and Bran Selic and Yingfei Xiong and Rick Rabiser and Norbert Siegmund and Christoph Elsner and Jun Wei and Bing Xie and Jesper Andersson and Andrzej Wasowski and Li Zhang and Yun Xie and Krzysztof Czarnecki and Thorsten Berger and Jocelyn Simmonds",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 20th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2016",
}