Automatic Documentation of [Mined] Feature Implementations from Source Code Elements and Use-Case Diagrams with the REVPLINE Approach - LIRMM - Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
Journal Articles International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Year : 2014

Automatic Documentation of [Mined] Feature Implementations from Source Code Elements and Use-Case Diagrams with the REVPLINE Approach

Abstract

Companies often develop a set of software variants that share some features and differ in other ones to meet specific requirements. To exploit the existing software variants as a Software Product Line (SPL), a Feature Model of this SPL must be built as a first step. To do so, it is necessary to define and document the optional and mandatory features that compose the variants. In our previous work, we mined a set of feature implementations as identified sets of source code elements. In this paper, we propose a complementary approach, which aims to document the mined feature implementations by giving them names and descriptions, based on the source code elements that form feature implementations and the use-case diagrams that specify software variants. The novelty of our approach is its use of commonality and variability across software variants, at feature implementation and use-case levels, to run Information Retrieval methods in an efficient way. Experiments on several real case studies (Mobile media and ArgoUML-SPL) validate our approach and show promising results.
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lirmm-01147898 , version 1 (01-06-2021)

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Ra'Fat Ahmad Al-Msie'Deen, Marianne Huchard, Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai, Christelle Urtado, Sylvain Vauttier. Automatic Documentation of [Mined] Feature Implementations from Source Code Elements and Use-Case Diagrams with the REVPLINE Approach. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2014, 24 (10), pp.1413-1438. ⟨10.1142/S0218194014400142⟩. ⟨lirmm-01147898⟩
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