An Empirical Study of Two Software Product Line Tools

Kattiana Constantino, Juliana Alves Pereira, Juliana Padilha, Priscilla Vasconcelos, Eduardo Figueiredo

2016

Abstract

In the last decades, software product lines (SPL) have proven to be an efficient software development technique in industries due its capability to increase quality and productivity and decrease cost and time-to-market through extensive reuse of software artifacts. To achieve these benefits, tool support is fundamental to guide industries during the SPL development life-cycle. However, many different SPL tools are available nowadays and the adoption of the appropriate tool is a big challenge in industries. In order to support engineers choosing a tool that best fits their needs, this paper presents the results of a controlled empirical study to assess two Eclipse-based tools, namely FeatureIDE and pure::variants. This empirical study involved 84 students who used and evaluated both tools. The main weakness we observe in both tools are the lack adequate mechanisms for managing the variability, such as for product configuration. As a strength, we observe the automated analysis and the feature model editor.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Constantino K., Pereira J., Padilha J., Vasconcelos P. and Figueiredo E. (2016). An Empirical Study of Two Software Product Line Tools . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-189-2, pages 164-171. DOI: 10.5220/0005829801640171

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase16,
author={Kattiana Constantino and Juliana Alves Pereira and Juliana Padilha and Priscilla Vasconcelos and Eduardo Figueiredo},
title={An Empirical Study of Two Software Product Line Tools},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2016},
pages={164-171},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005829801640171},
isbn={978-989-758-189-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - An Empirical Study of Two Software Product Line Tools
SN - 978-989-758-189-2
AU - Constantino K.
AU - Pereira J.
AU - Padilha J.
AU - Vasconcelos P.
AU - Figueiredo E.
PY - 2016
SP - 164
EP - 171
DO - 10.5220/0005829801640171