Demonstration of a Toolchain for Feature Extraction, Analysis and Visualization on an Industrial Case Study

Sten Grüner , Andreas Burger , Hadil Abukwaik , Sascha El-Sharkawy , Klaus Schmid (1) , Tewfik Ziadi (2) , Anton Paule , Felix Suda , Alexander Viehl

1 University of Hildesheim
2 MoVe - Modélisation et Vérification

Transforming a clone-and-own (i.e. new product variants are created by copying and modifying existing artifacts) code structure and development process to a Software Product Line Engineering (PLE) approach is a tedious and error-prone task. Holistic tool support for such a process is highly desirable, especially to lower efforts and to speed up the transformation. Unfortunately, such a holistic toolchain for reverse engineering of variability, supporting variant-centric and platform-centric extraction approaches is not available. In this paper, we present a toolchain covering the first steps for moving a clone-and-own product development to a PLE approach. We validate the first prototype of the toolchain on a case study consisting of industrial firmware for smart motor controllers and we show that even this early prototype reduces time and effort for moving to a configurable platform approach in the sense of PLE.

Mots clés: Indus- trial Case Study; Holistic Toolchain; Feature Mining; PLE

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Sten Grüner, Andreas Burger, Hadil Abukwaik, Sascha El-Sharkawy, Klaus Schmid, et al.. Demonstration of a Toolchain for Feature Extraction, Analysis and Visualization on an Industrial Case Study. 2019 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Jul 2019, Helsinki, Finland. pp.459-465, ⟨10.1109/INDIN41052.2019.8972141⟩. ⟨hal-02467628⟩