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01.10.2014 | Theme Section Paper

Extraction and evolution of architectural variability models in plugin-based systems

verfasst von: Mathieu Acher, Anthony Cleve, Philippe Collet, Philippe Merle, Laurence Duchien, Philippe Lahire

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Abstract

Variability management is a key issue when building and evolving software-intensive systems, making it possible to extend, configure, customize and adapt such systems to customers’ needs and specific deployment contexts. A wide form of variability can be found in extensible software systems, typically built on top of plugin-based architectures that offer a (large) number of configuration options through plugins. In an ideal world, a software architect should be able to generate a system variant on-demand, corresponding to a particular assembly of plugins. To this end, the variation points and constraints between architectural elements should be properly modeled and maintained over time (i.e., for each version of an architecture). A crucial, yet error-prone and time-consuming, task for a software architect is to build an accurate representation of the variability of an architecture, in order to prevent unsafe architectural variants and reach the highest possible level of flexibility. In this article, we propose a reverse engineering process for producing a variability model (i.e., a feature model) of a plugin-based architecture. We develop automated techniques to extract and combine different variability descriptions, including a hierarchical software architecture model, a plugin dependency model and the software architect knowledge. By computing and reasoning about differences between versions of architectural feature models, software architect can control both the variability extraction and evolution processes. The proposed approach has been applied to a representative, large-scale plugin-based system (FraSCAti), considering different versions of its architecture. We report on our experience in this context.

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Fußnoten
1
Maven (http://​maven.​apache.​org/​) is a software tool for managing a project’s build, reporting and documentation.
 
2
We use here the term variability as in the definition from  [67]: “software variability is the ability of a software system or artifact to be efficiently extended, changed, customized or configured for use in a particular context.”
 
3
The exploitation of the FM in a forward engineering process is out of the scope of this paper. Numerous generative techniques have been developed (see, e.g., [18, 30, 52]), and we plan to reuse them in our ongoing effort for reengineering FraSCAti.
 
4
It should be noted that the extraction only focuses on the first-level composites that include some variability. It ignores all the composites that do not contain any optional references.
 
5
Similarly, the constraint \(Ar4 \Rightarrow Ar6\) could be restituted in the model (using the information of the implication graph, see above). The slicing operator does not add this constraint because of the redundancy with \(Ar3 \Rightarrow Ar5\).
 
6
This assumption is also shared by [26, 63, 70].
 
7
Further details and material (including FMs and FAMILIAR scripts) about the experiment are available in [1].
 
8
A feature \(f\) of \(FM\) is a core feature if it is part of all valid configurations of \(FM\).
 
9
In [71], Thüm et al. define a feature as abstract, “if and only if it is not mapped to any implementation artifacts”. They “call all other features non-abstract or concrete, i.e., a concrete feature is mapped to at least one implementation artifact”. It corresponds to our case.
 
10
Many constraints of \(fm_{Arch}\) involve features tinfi_oo, osgi_provider, julia, thus confirming that their parent feature fractal_bootstrap_class_provider is needed in many configurations.
 
11
The information gained during the reverse engineering process for the version 1.3 of FraSCAti could have been used by the SA to modify the FraSCAti artifacts or refactor the architecture. Nevertheless, such changes have not been made in the project. Therefore, versions 1.4 and 1.5 share a lot of properties of version 1.3, including mandatory or obsolete features.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Extraction and evolution of architectural variability models in plugin-based systems
verfasst von
Mathieu Acher
Anthony Cleve
Philippe Collet
Philippe Merle
Laurence Duchien
Philippe Lahire
Publikationsdatum
01.10.2014
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Software and Systems Modeling / Ausgabe 4/2014
Print ISSN: 1619-1366
Elektronische ISSN: 1619-1374
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-013-0364-2

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