Feature-oriented software evolution
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
The crosscutting impact of the AOSD Brazilian research community
Journal of Systems and Software
Test-based SPL extraction: an exploratory study
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
A taxonomy of software product line reengineering
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems
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The extraction of nontrivial software product lines (SPL) from a legacy application is a time-consuming task. First, developers must identify the components responsible for the implementation of each program feature. Next, they must locate the lines of code that reference the components discovered in the previous step. Finally, they must extract those lines to independent modules or annotate them in some way. To speed up product line extraction, this paper describes a semi-automatic approach to annotate the code of optional features in SPLs. The proposed approach is based on an existing tool for product line development, called CIDE, that enhances standard IDEs with the ability to associate background colors with the lines of code that implement a feature. We have evaluated and successfully applied our approach to the extraction of optional features from three nontrivial systems: Prevayler (an in-memory database system), JFreeChart (a chart library), and ArgoUML (a UML modeling tool).