research-article

SMartyParser: a XMI parser for UML-based software product line variability models

Authors:

Leandro A. Lanceloti,

José C. Maldonado,

Itana M. S. Gimenes,

Edson A. Oliveira, JrAuthors Info & Claims

VaMoS '13: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

Article No.: 10, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/2430502.2430516

Published: 23 January 2013 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

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.

References

[1]

Eclipse Modeling Framework. http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf, 2012.

Google Scholar

[2]

ORACLE Netbeans EidosUML. http://wiki.netbeans.org/EidosUML, 2012.

Google Scholar

[3]

J. Bosch. Preface. In Proceedings of the 2nd Groningen Workshop on Software Variability Management: Software Product Families and Populations, pages 1--2, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2004. University of Groningen.

Google Scholar

[4]

L. Chen and M. Ali Babar. A Systematic Review of Evaluation of Variability Management Approaches in Software Product Lines. Information and Software Technology, 53(4):344--362, 2011.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[5]

GentleWare. Poseidon for UML. http://www.gentleware.com, 2012.

Google Scholar

[6]

I. Jacobson, M. L. Griss, and P. Jonsson. Software Reuse: Architecture, Process, and Organization for Business Success. Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, USA, 1997.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[7]

F. J. Linden, K. v. d. Schmid, and E. Rommes. Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2007.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[8]

E. A. Oliveira Junior, I. M. S. Gimenes, and J. C. Maldonado. Systematic Management of Variability in UML-based Software Product Lines. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 16(17):2374--2393, 2010.

Google Scholar

[9]

OMG. Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Superstructure v.2.2. http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.2, 2010.

Google Scholar

[10]

OMG. XML Metamodel Interchange Specification (XMI) v. 2.4.1. http://www.omg.org/spec/XMI/2.4.1, 2012.

Google Scholar

[11]

M. D. Petry. UML2Django: A MVC Framework Code Generator. Final Course Project (in portuguese), 2008.

Google Scholar

[12]

SDMetrics. Open Core - V. 2.3. http://www.sdmetrics.com/OpenCore.html, 2012.

Google Scholar

[13]

SEI. Arcade Game Maker Pedagogical Product Line. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/productlines/ppl, 2010.

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Chambers CGaneriwala PBhattacharyya SSen CNur N(2023)Towards Knowledge Extraction and Parsing of XML Metadata for SysML System Architecture Modeling2023 IEEE 14th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)10.1109/UEMCON59035.2023.10316143(0564-0570)Online publication date: 12-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON59035.2023.10316143
OliveiraJr EGimenes IMaldonado J(2022)The SMarty Approach for UML-Based Software Product LinesUML-Based Software Product Line Engineering with SMarty10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_4(57-71)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_4
Silva LOliveiraJr E(2021)SMartyModeling: an Environment for Engineering UML-based Software Product LinesProceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems10.1145/3442391.3442397(1-5)Online publication date: 9-Feb-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442391.3442397
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

SMartyParser: a XMI parser for UML-based software product line variability models

Recommendations

Variability Identification and Representation in Software Product Line UML Sequence Diagrams: Proposal and Empirical Study
ARES '14: Proceedings of the 2014 Ninth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

Variability management is an essential activity to ensure which products can be instantiated from the core assets of Software Product lines (SPLs). Stereotype-based Management of Variability (SMarty) is one of the several approaches to manage ...
Configuring Software Product Line Specific Products with SMarty and PLUS: An Experimental Study on Use Case Diagrams
SBQS '18: Proceedings of the XVII Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality

Software Product Line (SPL) represents a set of systems that share common and variable elements, to meet the specific needs of a particular market segment, providing the necessary flexibility for product customization and diversification. The adoption ...
Towards the Effectiveness of the SMarty Approach for Variability Management at Sequence Diagram Level
ICEIS 2014: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2

SMarty is a variability management approach for UML-based software product lines. It allows the identification, delimitation and representation of variabilities in several UML models by means of a UML profile, the SMartyProfile, and a systematic process ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

VaMoS '13: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems

January 2013

136 pages

ISBN:9781450315418

DOI:10.1145/2430502

General Chair:
Stefania Gnesi
ISTI-CNR, Italy
,
Program Chairs:
Philippe Collet
Université Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS/I3S, France
,
Klaus Schmid
University of Hildesheim, Germany

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 23 January 2013

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

VaMoS '13

Sponsor:

ICAR, National Research Council, Section of Naples, Italy
CNR

VaMoS '13: The Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems

January 23 - 25, 2013

Pisa, Italy

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 66 of 147 submissions, 45%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

6
Total Citations
View Citations
262
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)5
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 02 Mar 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Chambers CGaneriwala PBhattacharyya SSen CNur N(2023)Towards Knowledge Extraction and Parsing of XML Metadata for SysML System Architecture Modeling2023 IEEE 14th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)10.1109/UEMCON59035.2023.10316143(0564-0570)Online publication date: 12-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/UEMCON59035.2023.10316143
OliveiraJr EGimenes IMaldonado J(2022)The SMarty Approach for UML-Based Software Product LinesUML-Based Software Product Line Engineering with SMarty10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_4(57-71)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_4
Silva LOliveiraJr E(2021)SMartyModeling: an Environment for Engineering UML-based Software Product LinesProceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems10.1145/3442391.3442397(1-5)Online publication date: 9-Feb-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442391.3442397
Jaffari ALee JKim E(2020)Variability Modeling in Software Product Line: A Systematic Literature ReviewSoftware Engineering in IoT, Big Data, Cloud and Mobile Computing10.1007/978-3-030-64773-5_1(1-15)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64773-5_1
Oliveira EAllian AKruchten PLau KNakagawa E(2015)Do Reference Architectures can Contribute to Standardizing Variability Management Tools?Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Exploring Component-based Techniques for Constructing Reference Architectures10.1145/2755567.2755568(9-12)Online publication date: 6-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2755567.2755568
Badharudheen PChacko AMadhu Kumar S(2014)Making an Application Provenance-Aware through UML – A General SchemeRecent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security10.1007/978-3-642-54525-2_40(451-460)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54525-2_40

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Abstract

References

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Variability Identification and Representation in Software Product Line UML Sequence Diagrams: Proposal and Empirical Study

Configuring Software Product Line Specific Products with SMarty and PLUS: An Experimental Study on Use Case Diagrams

Towards the Effectiveness of the SMarty Approach for Variability Management at Sequence Diagram Level

Comments

Information

Published In

Sponsors

Publisher

Publication History

Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Conference

Acceptance Rates

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

Other Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Login options

Full Access

View options

PDF

eReader

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media

Affiliations