{"title":"Feature-based application development and management of multi-tenant applications in clouds","authors":"Hendrik Moens, F. Turck","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648519","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been a rising interest in cloud computing, which is often used to offer Software as a Service (SaaS) over the Internet. SaaS applications can be offered to clients at a lower cost as they are usually multi-tenant: many end users make use of a single application instance, even when they are from different organisations. It is difficult to offer highly customizable SaaS applications that are still multi-tenant, which is why these SaaS applications are often offered in a one size fits all approach. In some application domains applications must be highly customizable, making it more difficult to migrate them to a cloud environment, and losing the benefits of multi-tenancy. In this paper we compare multiple approaches for the development and management of highly customizable multitenant SaaS applications, and present a methodology for developing and managing these applications. We compare two approaches, an application-based approach focusing on deploying multiple multi-tenant applications variants, and a feature-based approach where applications are composed out of multi-tenant services using a service oriented architecture. In addition, we also discuss a hybrid approach combining properties of both. We conclude that the feature-based approach results in the fewest application instances at runtime resulting in more multi-tenancy.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121343639","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}
D. Landuyt, Steven Op de beeck, A. Hovsepyan, Sam Michiels, W. Joosen, Sven Meynckens, G. D. Jong, Olivier Barais, M. Acher
{"title":"Towards managing variability in the safety design of an automotive hall effect sensor","authors":"D. Landuyt, Steven Op de beeck, A. Hovsepyan, Sam Michiels, W. Joosen, Sven Meynckens, G. D. Jong, Olivier Barais, M. Acher","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648546","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the merits and challenges of adopting software product line engineering (SPLE) as the main development process for an automotive Hall Effect sensor. This versatile component is integrated into a number of automotive applications with varying safety requirements (e.g., windshield wipers and brake pedals). This paper provides a detailed explanation as to why the process of safety assessment and verification of the Hall Effect sensor is currently cumbersome and repetitive: it must be repeated entirely for every automotive application in which the sensor is to be used. In addition, no support is given to the engineer to select and configure the appropriate safety solutions and to explain the safety implications of his decisions. To address these problems, we present a tailored SPLE-based approach that combines model-driven development with advanced model composition techniques for applying and reasoning about specific safety solutions. In addition, we provide insights about how this approach can reduce the overall complexity, improve reusability, and facilitate safety assessment of the Hall Effect sensor.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115502457","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}
{"title":"Delta-oriented multi software product lines","authors":"Ferruccio Damiani, Ina Schaefer, Tim Winkelmann","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648536","url":null,"abstract":"Modern software systems outgrow the scope of traditional software product lines (SPLs) resulting in multi software product lines (MSPLs) with many interconnected subsystem versions and variants. Delta-oriented programming (DOP) is a flexible, modular approach for implementing SPLs, but DOP so far does not allow the realization of MSPLs. In this paper, we extend DOP to support MSPL development and provide the first holistic modeling approach for MSPLs that spans problem, solution and configuration space. The main concept is the extension of DOP with the possibility to import other SPLs or MSPLs into a new MSPL. By expressing constraints amongst the imported SPLs, a common configuration and product generation is enabled.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123569019","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}
{"title":"Managing variability with feature models","authors":"Danilo Beuche, M. Schulze","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648561","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we give a brief overview on the tutorial \"Managing Variability with Feature Models\".","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133817782","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}
{"title":"Handling complex configurations in software product lines: a tooled approach","authors":"Simon Urli, M. Blay-Fornarino, P. Collet","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648523","url":null,"abstract":"As Software Product Lines (SPLs) are now more widely applied in new application fields such as IT or Web systems, complex and large-scale configurations have to be handled. In these fields, the strong domain orientation leads to the need to manage interrelated SPLs and multiple instances of configured sub-products, resulting in complex configurations that cannot be easily represented by simple sets of features. In this paper we propose a tooled approach to manage such SPLs through a domain model that interrelates several feature models in a consistent way. The approach thus shifts part of the domain knowledge to the problem space and supports the derivation of complex configurations with multiple instantiations and associations of sub-products. We also report on the application of our approach to an industrial-strength software development in the field of digital signage.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115691319","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}
{"title":"SPLat 2014: First International Workshop on Software Product Line Analysis Tools","authors":"Axel Legay, E. Vink","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648552","url":null,"abstract":"The SPLat 2014 workshop aims to provide a platform for the presentation and positioning of formal analysis tools as used in Software Product Line Engineering for the identification of commonalities and differences of these tools as well as for the inventorying of challenges for their application. SPLat 2014 focuses on the underlying concepts and overall approach, in particular how to mitigate combinatorial explosion.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121206882","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}
{"title":"Mapping product line requirements to a product line architecture","authors":"M. Mannion, J. Savolainen","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648559","url":null,"abstract":"This tutorial explores how the prudent use of a set of requirements variability management techniques can ensure the alignment of a product line business strategy and the corresponding product platform development strategy.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124442350","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}
{"title":"TDL: a transformation description language from feature model to use case for automated use case derivation","authors":"Wenjing Yu, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, Zhi Jin","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648531","url":null,"abstract":"Software product line engineering (SPLE) is a widely adopted approach to systematic software reuse. One basic research issue in SPLE is the product derivation problem, which focuses on how to derive software products from reusable software assets efficiently. In this paper, we focus on a sub-problem of product derivation: the problem of automated use case derivation, i.e. deriving the use cases of a software product in an automated way. We take a feature-oriented approach to this problem, an approach involving two components: a feature model, and the transformation information from the feature model to a set of use cases. In particular, we propose a transformation description language (TDL) to specify the transformation information from a feature model to a set of related use cases, and to support automated derivation of use cases corresponding to a valid feature model configuration. In addition, we also propose a set of criteria to check the validity of a TDL program. Three case studies have been conducted to demonstrate the usability of TDL and the feasibility of the automated use case derivation process based on TDL programs.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125577125","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}
{"title":"Generation, composition, and verification of families of human-intensive systems","authors":"Borislava I. Simidchieva, L. Osterweil","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648533","url":null,"abstract":"Software products are rarely developed without providing different sets of features to better meet varying user needs, whether through tiered products as part of a product line or different subscription levels for software as a service (SaaS). Software product line approaches for generating and maintaining a family of different variants of software products address such needs for variation quite well. Real-world human-intensive systems (HISs) display similar needs for families of variants. A key contribution of this paper is to show how many of these needs can be rigorously and systematically addressed by adapting established techniques from system and software product line engineering (SPLE). In this paper, we present an approach for creating such families by explicitly modeling variation in HISs. We focus on two kinds of variation we have previously described in other work---functional detail variation and service variation. We describe a prototype system that is able to meet the need for these kinds of variation within an existing modeling framework and present a case study of the application of our prototype system to generate a family in an HIS from the domain of elections. Our approach also demonstrates how to perform model-checking of this family to discover whether any variants in the family may violate specified system requirements.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129035657","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}
{"title":"ESAO: towards data- and ecosystem-driven R&D","authors":"J. Bosch","doi":"10.1145/2648511.2648560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2648511.2648560","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing rate of change in industry, companies need to manage their internal alignment between strategy, software architecture and organizing R&D as well as with their ecosystem more proactively. Lack of alignment is the root cause of many problems experienced in the software-intensive systems industry. The ESAO model provides a framework for addressing the aforementioned challenges. It provides an internal perspective as well as an ecosystem perspective and for each perspective offers a strategic, architectural and ways of working dimension. ESAO offers tools for each of the dimensions as well as mechanisms for establishing and maintaining alignment.","PeriodicalId":303765,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 18th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115294337","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}