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Getting rid of clone-and-own: moving to a software product line for temperature monitoring

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Sebastian Krieter,

Gunter SaakeAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '18: Proceedings of the 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1

Pages 179 - 189

https://doi.org/10.1145/3233027.3233050

Published: 10 September 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Due to its fast and simple applicability, clone-and-own is widely used in industry to develop software variants. In cooperation with different companies for thermoelectric products, we implemented multiple variants of a heat monitoring tool based on clone-and-own. After encountering redundancy-related problems during development and maintenance, we decided to migrate towards a software product line. Within this paper, we describe this case study of migrating cloned variants to a software product line based on the extractive approach. The resulting software product line encapsulates variability on several levels, including the underlying hardware systems, interfaces, and use cases. Currently, we support monitoring hardware from three different companies that use the same core system and provide a configurable front-end. We share our experiences and encountered problems with cloning and migration towards a software product line---focusing on feature extraction and modeling in particular. Furthermore, we provide a lightweight, web-based tool for modeling, configuring, and implementing software product lines, which we use to migrate and manage features. Besides this experience report, we contribute most of the created artifacts as open-source and freely available for the research community.

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Index Terms

Getting rid of clone-and-own: moving to a software product line for temperature monitoring
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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SPLC '18: Proceedings of the 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1

September 2018

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ISBN:9781450364645

DOI:10.1145/3233027

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Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
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