Alm14d

@article{ALM14d,
	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.
},
	Annote = {Extended and revised version of [ALM14b]
(to appear)},
	Author = {Rafat AL-Msie'deen and Abdelhak Djamel Seriai and Marianne Huchard and Christelle Urtado and Sylvain Vauttier},
	Date-Added = {2014-12-15 14:11:58 +0000},
	Date-Modified = {2014-12-15 15:28:42 +0000},
	Journal = {International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering},
	Keywords = {evolution / versions; object; features / product lines},
	Month = {December},
	Title = {Automatic documentation of [mined] feature implementations from source code elements and use case diagrams with the REVPLINE approach},
	Year = {2014}}