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SMartyPerspective: a perspective-based inspection technique for software product lines

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Giovanna Bettin,

Edson OliveiraJrAuthors Info & Claims

SBES '21: Proceedings of the XXXV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 90 - 94

https://doi.org/10.1145/3474624.3474626

Published: 05 October 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Software Product Line (SPL) is an approach for reusing software artifacts for a specific domain. To improve products quality, verification and validation activities for SPL artifacts are necessary, thus defects are not propagated to derived products. The lack of techniques to exploit the inherited SPL reuse characteristics, mainly in early phases, provides an opportunity to investigate how to improve SPL quality. Perspective-Based Reading (PBR) has proven to be a feasible inspection technique, as it considers different scenarios and perspectives of reviewers of software artifacts. Therefore, in this paper, we specify and evaluate SMartyPerspective, a PBR technique to inspect UML-based SPL diagrams (use case, class, sequence, and component) and feature diagrams. SMartyPerspective comprises Domain Engineering perspectives: Product Manager, Domain Requirements Engineer, Domain Architect, Domain Developer, and Domain Asset Manager. We evaluated it by carrying out a TAM-based qualitative study with 19 participants with experience in SPL and software inspections. We also used coding to analyze the open questions. Obtained results provide initial evidence SMartyPerspective is feasible for inspecting its supported diagrams.

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Bettin GGeraldi ROliveiraJr E(2022)Model-Based Inspections of Software Product LinesUML-Based Software Product Line Engineering with SMarty10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_7(121-153)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2022
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SBES '21: Proceedings of the XXXV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

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Bettin GGeraldi ROliveiraJr E(2022)Model-Based Inspections of Software Product LinesUML-Based Software Product Line Engineering with SMarty10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_7(121-153)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_7
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

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