RiPLE-HC: visual support for features scattering and interactions

Abstract

With the ever increasing popularity of JavaScript in different domains to build bigger and more complex software systems, variability management may be deemed as an affordable strategy. In this sense, Software Product Lines (SPL) engineering is one of the most successful paradigms to accomplish the necessary modularity and systematic reuse of code artifacts for that purpose. In previous work, we present tool support to hybrid composition of JavaScript-based product lines, called RiPLE-HC, which we now extend to incorporate a means to deal with feature interactions and feature annotation scattering in a more smooth way. The proposed tool support may provide practitioners with an easy-to-use approach to implement crosscutting features by increasing the awareness of the developers about the features implementation.