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T1 Software product line extraction from variability-rich systems: 												The robocode case study
A1 Martinez, Jabier
A1 Tërnava, Xhevahire
A1 Ziadi, Tewfik
A2 Light, Ann
A2 Lee, Yanki
A2 Lee, Yanki
A2 Garde, Julia
A2 Botterweck, Goetz
A2 Nadi, Sarah
A2 Kanstrup, Anne Marie
A2 Borba, Paulo
A2 Vines, John
A2 Berger, Thorsten
A2 Mannisto, Tomi
A2 Teli, Maurizio
A2 Brandt, Eva
A2 Bodker, Keld
A2 Benavides, David
AB The engineering of a Software Product Line (SPL), either by creating it from scratch or through the re-engineering of existing variants, it uses to be a project that spans several years with a high investment. It is often hard to analyse and quantify this investment, especially in the context of extractive SPL adoption when the related software variants are independently created by different developers following different system architectures and implementation conventions. This paper reports an experience on the creation of an SPL by reengineering system variants implemented around an educational game called Robocode. The objective of this game is to program a bot (a battle tank) that battles against the bots of other developers. The world-wide Robocode community creates and maintains a large base of knowledge and implementations that are mainly organized in terms of features, although not presented as an SPL. Therefore, a group of master students analysed this variability-rich domain and extracted a Robocode SPL. We present the results of such extraction augmented with an analysis and a quantification regarding the spent time and effort. We believe that the results and the a-posteriori analysis can provide insights on global challenges on SPL adoption. We also provide all the elements to SPL educators to reproduce the teaching activity, and we make available this SPL to be used for any research purpose.
PB Association for Computing Machinery
SN 9781450363716
SN 9781450364645
YR 2018
FD 2018-08-20
LK https://hdl.handle.net/11556/1746
UL https://hdl.handle.net/11556/1746
LA eng
NO Martinez , J , Tërnava , X & Ziadi , T 2018 , Software product line extraction from variability-rich systems : The robocode case study . in A Light , Y Lee , Y Lee , J Garde , G Botterweck , S Nadi , A M Kanstrup , P Borba , J Vines , T Berger , T Mannisto , M Teli , E Brandt , K Bodker & D Benavides (eds) , PDC 2018 : Participatory Design, Democracy and Politics - Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference . ACM International Conference Proceeding Series , vol. 1 , Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 132-142 , 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2018 , Gothenburg , Sweden , 10/09/18 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3233027.3233038
NO conference
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
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