Towards the Effectiveness of the SMarty Approach for Variability Management at Sequence Diagram Level

Anderson Marcolino, Edson Oliveira Jr, Itana Gimenes

2014

Abstract

SMarty is a variability management approach for UML-based software product lines. It allows the identification, delimitation and representation of variabilities in several UML models by means of a UML profile, the SMartyProfile, and a systematic process with guidelines to provide user directions for applying such a profile. SMarty, in its first versions did not support sequence models. In recent studies, SMarty was extended support to these types of UML models. Existing UML-based variability management approaches in the literature, including SMarty, do not provide empirical evidence of their effectiveness, which is an essential requirement for technology transfer to industry. Therefore, this paper presents empirical evidence of the SMarty approach to recent extension to UML sequence level models.

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Marcolino A., Oliveira Jr E. and Gimenes I. (2014). Towards the Effectiveness of the SMarty Approach for Variability Management at Sequence Diagram Level . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-028-4, pages 249-256. DOI: 10.5220/0004889302490256


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@conference{iceis14,
author={Anderson Marcolino and Edson Oliveira Jr and Itana Gimenes},
title={Towards the Effectiveness of the SMarty Approach for Variability Management at Sequence Diagram Level},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={249-256},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004889302490256},
isbn={978-989-758-028-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Towards the Effectiveness of the SMarty Approach for Variability Management at Sequence Diagram Level
SN - 978-989-758-028-4
AU - Marcolino A.
AU - Oliveira Jr E.
AU - Gimenes I.
PY - 2014
SP - 249
EP - 256
DO - 10.5220/0004889302490256