NDLI: From Requirements to Features: An Exploratory Study of Feature-Oriented Refactoring

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lopez-Herrejon, R.E. Montalvillo-Mendizabal, L. Egyed, A.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	More and more frequently successful software systems need to evolve into families of systems, known as Software Product Lines (SPLs), to be able to cater to the different functionality requirements demanded by different customers while at the same time aiming to exploit as much common functionality as possible. As a first step, this evolution demands a clear understanding of how the functional requirements map into the features of the original system. Using this knowledge, features can be refactored so that they are reused for building the new systems of the evolved SPL. In this paper we present our experience in refactoring features based on the requirements specifications of a small and a medium size systems. Our work identified eight refactoring patterns that describe how to extract the elements of features which were subsequently implemented using Feature Oriented Software Development (FOSD) a novel modularization paradigm whose driving goal is to effectively modularize features for the development of variable systems. We argue that the identification of refactoring patterns are a stepping stone towards automating Feature-Oriented Refactoring, and present some open issues that should be addressed to that avail.
Starting Page	181
Ending Page	190
File Size	488825
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457710292
DOI	10.1109/SPLC.2011.52
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-08-22
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Java Programming Motion pictures Feature extraction Software Product Line Evolution Servers Feature Oriented Refactoring Feature Orientation Graphical user interfaces Software Product Lines
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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