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| Author(s): |
Allian, Ana P.
;
Silva, Leandro F.
;
Oliveira, Edson
;
Nakagawa, Elisa Y.
Total Authors: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE; v. 29, n. 7, p. 42-pg., 2023-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
Currently, software systems must be appropriately developed to support an amount of variability for accommodating different requirements. To support such development, a diversity of tools has already been designed for variability management (i.e., identification, modeling, evaluation, and realization). However, due to this diversity, there is a lack of consensus on what in fact software variability tools are and even what functionalities they should provide. Besides that, the building of new tools is still an effort- and time-consuming task. To support their building, we present VMTools-RA, a reference architecture that encompasses knowledge and practice for developing and evolving variability tools. Designed in a systematic way, VMTools-RA was evaluated throughout: a controlled experiment with software developer practitioners; and an instantiation of the VMTools-RA architecture to implement a software variability tool, named SMartyModeling. As a result, VMTools-RA is evidenced to be feasible and it can be considered an important contribution to the software variability and developers of variability-intensive software systems community, which require specific tools developed in a faster manner with less risk, what a reference architecture could provide. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/05919-0 - Variability management in reference architectures |
| Grantee: | Ana Paula Allian |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/24144-7 - Technologies and solutions for enabling the cloud of things paradigm |
| Grantee: | José Neuman de Souza |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/20882-1 - Variability Management in Reference Architectures |
| Grantee: | Ana Paula Allian |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |