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Optimizing Software Product Line Architectures with OPLA-Tool

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MOA4PLA is an approach proposed for Product Line Architecture (PLA) design optimization, based on multi-objective algorithms and different metrics that consider specific PLA characteristics. To allow the practical use of MOA4PLA, this paper describes OPLA-Tool, a supporting tool that implements the complete MOA4PLA process. OPLA-Tool has a graphical interface used to choose algorithms, parameters, search operators used in the optimization, and to visualize the alternative PLAs (solutions), with their fitness values associated and corresponding class diagrams. The paper also describes an experiment conducted to evaluate the usefulness of OPLA-Tool. Results show that OPLA-Tool achieves its purpose and that improved solutions are obtained.

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    http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/papyrus/.

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    The OPLA-Patterns and OPLA-ArchStyles modules were not used and will be evaluated in other studies.

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  1. DInf - Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, CP: 19081, 81531-980, Brazil

    Édipo Luis Féderle, Thiago do Nascimento Ferreira & Silvia Regina Vergilio

  2. DIN - State University of Maringá, Maringá, 87020-900, Brazil

    Thelma Elita Colanzi

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  1. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Márcio Barros

  2. Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Yvan Labiche

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Féderle, É.L., Ferreira, T.d.N., Colanzi, T.E., Vergilio, S.R. (2015). Optimizing Software Product Line Architectures with OPLA-Tool. In: Barros, M., Labiche, Y. (eds) Search-Based Software Engineering. SSBSE 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22183-0_30

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