NDLI: Emergo: a tool for improving maintainability of preprocessor-based product lines

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Emergo: a tool for improving maintainability of preprocessor-based product lines

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Ribeiro, Márcio Brabrand, Claus Winther, Johnni Tolêdo, Társis Borba, Paulo
Abstract	When maintaining a feature in preprocessor-based Software Product Lines (SPLs), developers are susceptible to introduce problems into other features. This is possible because features eventually share elements (like variables and methods) with the maintained one. This scenario might be even worse when hiding features by using techniques like Virtual Separation of Concerns (VSoC), since developers cannot see the feature dependencies and, consequently, they become unaware of them. Emergent Interfaces was proposed to minimize this problem by capturing feature dependencies and then providing information about other features that can be impacted during a maintenance task. In this paper, we present Emergo, a tool capable of computing emergent interfaces between the feature we are maintaining and the others. Emergo relies on feature-sensitive dataflow analyses in the sense it takes features and the SPL feature model into consideration when computing the interfaces.
Starting Page	23
Ending Page	26
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450312226
DOI	10.1145/2162110.2162128
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-03-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Software modularity Software product lines Dataflow analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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