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OPLA-Tool v2.0: a Tool for Product Line Architecture Design Optimization

Authors:

Willian Marques Freire,

Mamoru Massago,

Arthur Cattaneo Zavadski,

Aline Maria Malachini,

Thelma Elita ColanziAuthors Info & Claims

SBES '20: Proceedings of the XXXIV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 818 - 823

https://doi.org/10.1145/3422392.3422498

Published: 21 December 2020 Publication History

Abstract

The Multi-objective Optimization Approach for Product Line Architecture Design (MOA4PLA) is the seminal approach that successfully optimizes Product Line Architecture (PLA) design using search algorithms. The tool named OPLA-Tool was developed in order to automate the use of MOA4PLA. Over time, the customization of the tool to suit the needs of new research and application scenarios led to several problems. The main problems identified in the original version of OPLA-Tool are environment configuration, maintainability and usability problems, and PLA design modeling and visualization. Such problems motivated the development of a new version of this tool: OPLA-Tool v2.0, presented in this work. In this version, those problems were solved by the source code refactoring, migration to a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) and inclusion of a new support tool for PLA modeling and visualization. Furthermore, OPLA-Tool v2.0 has new functionalities, such as new objective functions, new search operators, intelligent interaction with users during the optimization process, multi-user authentication and simultaneous execution of several experiments to PLA optimization. Such a new version of OPLA-Tool is an important achievement to PLA design optimization as it provides an easier and more complete way to automate this task.

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Index Terms

OPLA-Tool v2.0: a Tool for Product Line Architecture Design Optimization
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Search-based software engineering
    2. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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SBES '20: Proceedings of the XXXIV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

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ISBN:9781450387538

DOI:10.1145/3422392

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