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An Introduction to Software Product Line Refactoring

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Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering III (GTTSE 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 6491))

Abstract

Although software product lines (PLs) can bring significant productivity and quality improvements through strategic reuse, bootstrapping existing products into a PL, and extending a PL with more products, is often risky and expensive. These kinds of PL derivation and evolution might require substantial effort and can easily affect the behavior of existing products. To reduce these problems, we propose a notion of product line refactoring and associated transformation templates that should be part of a PL refactoring catalogue. We discuss how the notion guides and improves safety of the PL derivation and evolution processes; the transformation templates, particularly when automated, reduce the effort needed to perform these processes.

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  1. Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

    Paulo Borba

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    João M. Fernandes  & João Saraiva  & 

  2. FB 4, Institut für Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, B127, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Ralf Lämmel

  3. Software Improvement Group, A.J. Ernststraat 595-H, 1082 LD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joost Visser

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Borba, P. (2011). An Introduction to Software Product Line Refactoring. In: Fernandes, J.M., Lämmel, R., Visser, J., Saraiva, J. (eds) Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering III. GTTSE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18023-1_1

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