Supporting software product lines development: FLiP - product line derivation tool

ABSTRACT

With the growing academic and industrial interest in Software Product Lines, one area demanding special attention is tool support development, which is a pre-requisite for widespread software product lines practices adoption. In this demo, we present FLiP, a suite of tools consisting of 3 modules: a refactoring tool that implements code transformations for extracting product variations from Java classes into AspectJ aspects, a module that integrates with a Feature Model tool for updating a software product lines feature model accordingly to code transformations, and a tool responsible for building the final products. FLiP has been designed and tested in the context of industrial-strength mobile game software product lines.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.3 Coding Tools and Techniques
          Subjects: Object-oriented programming

General Terms:
Design, Languages

Keywords:
refactoring, software product lines, tool support