Research Plan

In this area we detail the project plan, grouped by three macro-activities.

• Evaluate existing approaches
• Design and specify language constructs for SPL
• Evaluate proposed constructs

Evaluate existing approaches

This macro-activity will bring a better understanding about the limitations of existing techniques used to modularize features of a software product line. To achieve that, the following sub-activities have been planed.

(ATV01.1) Evaluation design

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This activity aims to specify the Goals, Questions, and Metrics of the study, the existing techniques to be evaluated, and the target case studies.

(ATV01.2) Evaluation execution

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This activity aims to implement the target case studies in each evaluated technique. Depending on the evaluation goals, we might have to implement more than one release of each case study.

(ATV01.3) Metrics evaluation

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This activity aims to compute the selected metrics from the case studies, improving our confidence when evaluating the modularity support of each technique. Here, we might have to implement or customise tools for computing the selected metrics.

(ATV01.4) Analysis of the results

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This activity aims to identify the limitations of existing techniques, leading to the first contributions of the project.

Design and specify language constructs for SPL development

Evaluate proposed constructs for SPL development

-- RodrigoBonifacio - 15 Mar 2010