2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse最新文献

An Architectural Model for Adapting Domain-Specific AOM Applications 适应领域特定的AOM应用程序的体系结构模型

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.13

Patricia Megumi Matsumoto, E. Guerra

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引用次数: 3

MetaTT - A Metamodel Based Approach for Writing Textual Transformations 基于元模型的文本转换编写方法

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.21

Anderson Ledo, F. Ramalho, Nata Melo

引用次数: 3

A Systematic Review of Contemporary Metrics for Software Maintainability 当代软件可维护性度量的系统回顾

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.15

Ramon Abílio, Pedro Teles, H. Costa, Eduardo Figueiredo

{"title":"A Systematic Review of Contemporary Metrics for Software Maintainability","authors":"Ramon Abílio, Pedro Teles, H. Costa, Eduardo Figueiredo","doi":"10.1109/SBCARS.2012.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBCARS.2012.15","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have been conducted with the aim of increasing the system quality. As a result, some contemporary technologies have been proposed for software development to improve maintainability, such as feature-oriented and aspect-oriented programming. Metrics are used to quantify the quality of systems developed in these technologies. Recently, contemporary metrics have been proposed or adapted from existing ones to evaluate specific issues of these contemporary technologies. This paper presents results of applying a systematic literature review to identify contemporary metrics associated with software maintainability and proposed for the feature-oriented and aspect-oriented technologies. Initially, we identify 672 published works and, after the primary selection, these quantity was reduced to 11 papers. These papers account for 33 and 78 contemporary metrics for feature-oriented and aspect-oriented technologies, respectively. The main contributions of this paper are (i) the list of metrics and measurable properties studies for feature-oriented and aspect-oriented programming, (ii) elaboration of a unified catalog of metrics applicable for both technologies, and (iii) identification of their main references.","PeriodicalId":229350,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126370853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 16

Pattern-Based Modifiability Analysis of EJB Architectures 基于模式的EJB体系结构可修改性分析

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.19

J. A. D. Pace, Alejandro Zunino

{"title":"Pattern-Based Modifiability Analysis of EJB Architectures","authors":"J. A. D. Pace, Alejandro Zunino","doi":"10.1109/SBCARS.2012.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBCARS.2012.19","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last years, several techniques to evaluatemodifiability of software architectureshave been developed. One of such techniques is change impact analysis (CIA), which aids developers in assessing the effects of change scenarios on architectural modules. However, CIA does not take into account the pattern structures behind those modules. In architectural frameworks, such as the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) architecture, the use of patterns is a key practice to achieve modifiability goals. Although patterns can be easily understood individually, when an application combines several pattern instances the analysis is not straightforward. In practice, many EJB designsare assessed in an ad-hoc manner and relying on the developers' experience. A way of dealing with this problem is through the integration of modifiabiliy analysis models and patterns. We propose a knowledge-based approach that explicitly links the EJB patterns to a scenario-based analysis for multi-tier architectures. Specifically, we have developed a modifiability reasoning framework that reifies the EJB patterns present in a given design solution and, for a set of predetermined scenarios, the reasoning framework identifies which architectural elements can be affected by the scenarios. The reasoning framework outputs metrics for each of the scenarios regarding specific EJB tiers. The main contribution of this approach is that assists developers to evaluate EJB alternatives, providing quantitativeinformation about the modifiability implications of their decisions. A preliminary evaluation has shown that the the reasoning framework is viable to analyze EJB designs.","PeriodicalId":229350,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130529866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Making Software Product Line Evolution Safer 使软件产品线发展更安全

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.18

F. Ferreira, Paulo Borba, Gustavo Soares, Rohit Gheyi

{"title":"Making Software Product Line Evolution Safer","authors":"F. Ferreira, Paulo Borba, Gustavo Soares, Rohit Gheyi","doi":"10.1109/SBCARS.2012.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBCARS.2012.18","url":null,"abstract":"Developers evolve software product lines (SPLs) manually or using typical program refactoring tools. However, when evolving a product line to introduce new features or to improve its design, it is important to make sure that the behavior of existing products is not affected. Typical program refactorings cannot guarantee that because the SPL context goes beyond code and other kinds of core assets, and involves additional artifacts such as feature models and configuration knowledge. Besides that, in a SPL we typically have to deal with a set of possibly alternative assets that do not constitute a well-formed program. As a result, manual changes and existing program refactoring tools may introduce behavioral changes or invalidate existing product configurations. To avoid that, we propose approaches and implement tools for making product line evolution safer; these tools check whether SPL transformations are refinements in the sense that they preserve the behavior of the original SPL products. They implement different and practical approximations of a formal definition of SPL refinement. We evaluate the approaches in concrete SPL evolution scenarios where existing product's behavior must be preserved. However, our tools found that some transformations introduced behavioral changes. Moreover, we evaluate defective refinements, and the toolset detects the behavioral changes.","PeriodicalId":229350,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129395337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 12

Selecting Architecture Configurations in Self- Adaptive Systems Using QoS Criteria 在使用QoS标准的自适应系统中选择架构配置

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.12

Daniel Cunha da Silva, A. Lopes, Felipe A. P. Pinto, Jair C. Leite

引用次数: 3

An Investigation on the Impact of MDE on Software Reuse MDE对软件复用的影响研究

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.16

D. Lucrédio, E. Almeida, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes

{"title":"An Investigation on the Impact of MDE on Software Reuse","authors":"D. Lucrédio, E. Almeida, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes","doi":"10.1109/SBCARS.2012.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBCARS.2012.16","url":null,"abstract":"Software reuse and model-driven engineering (MDE) are two distinct approaches that attempt to improve quality and productivity in software projects. Much is said about how MDE can increase software reuse by reducing the amount of hand-written code, but few studies consider the fact that in MDE other artifacts - models, tools, transformations and code generators - come into play and need to be considered. How much more reuse can we achieve with MDE? How reusable are these MDE-specific assets? Motivated by these questions, this paper presents the observations made in three exploratory studies. In each study, the same software was developed with and without MDE, and a comparison based on reuse metrics was made. The results indicate that MDE can increase and/or improve software reuse in different ways, but with some associated costs, such as increased software complexity and decreased maintainability. In the context of our observations, complex technical domains have more to gain from the automation achieved with MDE, while business domains seem to be more suitable for simpler feature-based configuration. We conclude the paper pointing out more studies that could be performed to gain additional knowledge regarding MDE and reuse.","PeriodicalId":229350,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133807296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 17

Vertical Code Completion: Going Beyond the Current Ctrl+Space 垂直代码补全:超越当前的Ctrl+空格

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.22

Luiz Laerte Nunes da Silva, T. N. Oliveira, A. Plastino, Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta

引用次数: 6

Variability Management of Reliability Models in Software Product Lines: An Expressiveness and Scalability Analysis 软件产品线可靠性模型的可变性管理:表达性和可扩展性分析

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.23

Vinicius Nunes, Paula Fernandes, Vander Alves, G. Rodrigues

{"title":"Variability Management of Reliability Models in Software Product Lines: An Expressiveness and Scalability Analysis","authors":"Vinicius Nunes, Paula Fernandes, Vander Alves, G. Rodrigues","doi":"10.1109/SBCARS.2012.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SBCARS.2012.23","url":null,"abstract":"Some domains, specially those of critical systems, require dependable software. Ensuring dependability is not a trivial problem. Model checking can be used to estimate the reliability of a software through models that represent the behavior of the system. Through these models it is possible to estimate and measure quantitatively properties such as reliability. In the context of Software Product Lines (SPL), we need to check an entire family of systems. It is not feasible to build a model for each configuration of a SPL as the number of models required can be very large. Some contributions directly address this issue proposing techniques specifically tailored for SPL. Particularly, the technique of parametric model-checking allows the use of a single model to obtain properties values from different configurations through an arithmetic formula. However, even an arithmetic formula may not be easy to evaluate. If the number of operands is large enough the cost of evaluation of this formula could also be large. Current techniques may impose limitations over the variability and/or system architecture. To the best of our knowledge, to handle variability on model checking is still an open problem. This work is an investigation of the whole process of obtaining a parametric arithmetic formula for a SPL. Knowing this process and the factors that directly affect the growth of the formula, we are able to develop new techniques to deal with parametric model-checking in SPL with less restrictions.","PeriodicalId":229350,"journal":{"name":"2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125412268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 15

A framework for monitorable services implementation 用于监控服务实现的框架

2012 Sixth Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse Pub Date : 2012-09-23 DOI: 10.1109/SBCARS.2012.20

David Cardoso, A. Sampaio

引用次数: 0