Software reuse: architecture, process and organization for business success
Software reuse: architecture, process and organization for business success
Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering
Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering
A systematic review of evaluation of variability management approaches in software product lines
Information and Software Technology
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Variability management is an important issue for the software-intensive systems domain. Such an issue is essential for the success of software product line (SPL) adoption strategies. Although it is a well-discussed subject in the SPL community, there is a lack of tool support for environments that handle UML-based SPL variabilities, as several variability management approaches take UML as a basis, specially its profiling mechanism. Such environments might handle variabilities for several reasons, such as, evaluating SPLs, defining and applying metrics based on a SPL modeling, and automating the product generation. Therefore, this paper presents the SMartyParser, a parser for processing UML-based SPL models. Such models can be obtained, in the XMI format, from every UML specification-compliant tool. Such a parser provides several services to make it easier the handling of variability data in a particular SPL environment/tool. SMartyParser was built by taking the Open Core framework as a basis for processing XMI files. A parser use example is presented by taking into account the SPL Arcade Game Maker UML models.