Experimental Evaluation of the SMarty Approach for Managing Variability in UML-Based Software Product Lines

• Anderson S. Marcolino UEM
• Edson OliveiraJr UEM

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2015.15237

Abstract

Software product line approach (SPL) allows reuse of many software artifacts by means of the variability management activity (VM), which manages variable artifacts in a SPL. To support the efficient management, approaches are adopted. Stereotype-based Management of Variability (SMarty) is an UML-based approach for VM and as other approaches, it needs experimental evidence of effectiveness to make it feasible to be applied to academic and industrial environments. This paper shows the extension of SMarty to identify variabilities in UML sequence models, as well as the realization of a set of experimental studies for evaluating the SMarty approach, in comparison with other significant approaches from the current literature. The results provided initial evidence that SMarty is effective to manage variabilities, increasing the quality and allowing the derivation of specific products using UML-based SPLs.

Keywords: Experimental Evaluation, SMarty, UML

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