Les lignes de produits logicielles constituent une approche permettant de construire et de maintenir une famille de produits logiciels similaires mettant en œuvre des principes de réutilisation. Ces principes favorisent la réduction de l'effort de développement et de maintenance, raccourcissent le temps de mise sur le marché et améliorent la qualité globale du logiciel. La migration de produits logiciels similaires vers une ligne de produits demande de comprendre leurs similitudes et leurs différences qui s'expriment sous forme de caractéristiques (features) offertes. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons au problème de la construction d'une ligne de produits à partir du code source de ses produits et de certains artefacts complémentaires comme les diagrammes de cas d'utilisation, quand ils existent. Nous proposons des contributions sur l'une des étapes principales dans cette construction, qui consiste à extraire et à organiser un modèle de caractéristiques (feature model) dans un mode automatisé. La première contribution consiste à extraire des caractéristiques dans le code source de variantes de logiciels écrits dans le paradigme objet. Trois techniques sont mises en œuvre pour parvenir à cet objectif : l'Analyse Formelle de Concepts, l'Indexation Sémantique Latente et l'analyse des dépendances structurelles dans le code. Elles exploitent les parties communes et variables au niveau du code source. La seconde contribution s'attache à documenter une caractéristique extraite par un nom et une description. Elle exploite le code source mais également les diagrammes de cas d'utilisation, qui contiennent, en plus de l'organisation logique des fonctionnalités externes, des descriptions textuelles de ces mêmes fonctionnalités. En plus des techniques précédentes, elle s'appuie sur l'Analyse Relationnelle de Concepts afin de former des groupes d'entités d'après leurs relations. Dans la troisième contribution, nous proposons une approche visant à organiser les caractéristiques, une fois documentées, dans un modèle de caractéristiques. Ce modèle de caractéristiques est un arbre étiqueté par des opérations et muni d'expressions logiques qui met en valeur les caractéristiques obligatoires, les caractéristiques optionnelles, des groupes de caractéristiques (groupes ET, OU, OU exclusif), et des contraintes complémentaires textuelles sous forme d'implication ou d'exclusion mutuelle. Ce modèle est obtenu par analyse d'une structure obtenue par Analyse Formelle de Concepts appliquée à la description des variantes par les caractéristiques. L'approche est validée sur trois cas d'étude principaux : ArgoUML-SPL, Health complaint-SPL et Mobile media. Ces cas d'études sont déjà des lignes de produits constituées. Nous considérons plusieurs produits issus de ces lignes comme s'ils étaient des variantes de logiciels, nous appliquons notre approche, puis nous évaluons son efficacité par comparaison entre les modèles de caractéristiques extraits automatiquement et les modèles de caractéristiques initiaux (conçus par les développeurs des lignes de produits analysées). / The idea of Software Product Line (SPL) approach is to manage a family of similar software products in a reuse-based way. Reuse avoids repetitions, which helps reduce development/maintenance effort, shorten time-to-market and improve overall quality of software. To migrate from existing software product variants into SPL, one has to understand how they are similar and how they differ one from another. Companies often develop a set of software variants that share some features and differ in other ones to meet specific requirements. To exploit existing software variants and build a software product line, a feature model must be built as a first step. To do so, it is necessary to extract mandatory and optional features in addition to associate each feature with its name. Then, it is important to organize the mined and documented features into a feature model. In this context, our thesis proposes three contributions.Thus, we propose, in this dissertation as a first contribution a new approach to mine features from the object-oriented source code of a set of software variants based on Formal Concept Analysis, code dependency and Latent Semantic Indexing. The novelty of our approach is that it exploits commonality and variability across software variants, at source code level, to run Information Retrieval methods in an efficient way. The second contribution consists in documenting the mined feature implementations based on Formal Concept Analysis, Latent Semantic Indexing and Relational Concept Analysis. We propose a complementary approach, which aims to document the mined feature implementations by giving names and descriptions, based on the feature implementations and use-case diagrams of software variants. The novelty of our approach is that it exploits commonality and variability across software variants, at feature implementations and use-cases levels, to run Information Retrieval methods in an efficient way. In the third contribution, we propose an automatic approach to organize the mined documented features into a feature model. Features are organized in a tree which highlights mandatory features, optional features and feature groups (and, or, xor groups). The feature model is completed with requirement and mutual exclusion constraints. We rely on Formal Concept Analysis and software configurations to mine a unique and consistent feature model. To validate our approach, we applied it on three case studies: ArgoUML-SPL, Health complaint-SPL, Mobile media software product variants. The results of this evaluation validate the relevance and the performance of our proposal as most of the features and its constraints were correctly identified.

The software development continues to become more competitive and demanding, placing pressure on developers. Changes in the international political climate have resulted in shrinking military budgets, putting developers of defence software under further pressure. At present, systematic reuse is probably the most realistic way of addressing this pressure by improving software development productivity and quality. Software product line (SPL) engineering provides a comprehensive approach to systematic software reuse and is becoming widely accepted. The focus of this interpretive case study was ground station software development in a small multidisciplinary project-centric company which produces avionics systems for military aircraft. The purpose of the study was to investigate the potential implementation of systematic software reuse in the company. The study consisted of three phases, a literature study, a contextualisation and a set of field interviews, and used elements of the Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Product Line Practice Framework to examine the suitability of SPL engineering for the company. The findings of the study highlight the potential challenges that SPL engineering poses for the company, and emphasise how the company's project-centric structure could impede its implementation of systematic software reuse. / Computing / M.Sc. (Information Systems)

Orientador: Cecília Mary Fischer Rubira / Tese (doutorado) ¿ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T03:56:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tizzei_LeonardoPondian_D.pdf: 4801081 bytes, checksum: 4be6c243f0c9f62c50e330561161fcdd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Arquiteturas de linhas de produtos são essenciais para facilitar a evolução das linhas, pois ajudam a lidar com sua complexidade, abstraindo seus detalhes de implementação. A variabilidade arquitetural difere arquiteturas de linhas de produtos de arquiteturas de sistemas únicos. Ela reflete a existência de alternativas de projeto arquitetural e é expressa por meio de um conjunto de pontos de variação e variantes arquiteturais. A variabilidade arquitetural pode dificultar a evolução de arquiteturas de linhas produtos, pois a implementação da variabilidade software pode aumentar a complexidade da arquitetura com a possível adição de elementos e dependências extras. A variabilidade de linhas de produtos é usualmente capturada modelo de características e implementado pela arquitetura de linha de produtos. Entretanto, a implementação de características, pontos de variação e variantes podem estar espalhados por diversos elementos arquiteturais, o que dificulta a sua evolução. Em geral, cenários de evolução de linhas de produto envolvem adição e/ou remoção de características, mudança de uma característica obrigatória para opcional, entre outros. Quando cenários de evolução afetam características cujas implementações estão espalhadas na arquitetura, eles podem causar impacto de mudança em vários elementos arquiteturais. Estudos recentes exploram o uso de aspectos para modularizar a implementação de características em arquiteturas de linhas de produtos. Aspectos são usados para modularizar interesses transversais que, no contexto de linhas de produtos, são interesses que afetam diversas características. Contudo, esses estudos não consideram (i) arquiteturas componentizadas com interfaces explícitas e (ii) o uso integrado de componentes e aspectos para modularizar a implementação da variabilidade arquitetural. Idealmente aspectos devem ser modelados o mais cedo possível, de preferência, junto com o modelo de características para possibilitar a criação de arquiteturas bem estruturadas com aspectos. Todavia, não existem modelos que integrem o modelo de características e aspectos, nem métodos que consideram aspectos para gerar arquiteturas de linhas produtos a partir do modelo de características. A solução proposta nesta tese envolve inicialmente um estudo comparativo para mostrar a facilidade de evolução de arquiteturas de linhas de produtos propiciada pelo uso integrado de componentes e aspectos. Em seguida, é proposta uma visão estendida do modelo de características que permite representar características transversais. Essa visão, chamada de visão de características orientada a aspectos, é usada para criar arquiteturas de linhas de produtos orientadas a aspectos. Além disso, um modelo arquitetural de componentes é estendido para integrar aspectos para modularizar a variabilidade arquitetural. Por fim, o método FArM, que provê o mapeamento de modelo de características para modelos de arquitetura de linha de produtos, é estendido para considerar características transversais. Foram conduzidos dois estudos empíricos: um para avaliar se o uso integrado de componentes e aspectos facilita ou não a evolução de arquiteturas de linhas de produtos. O outro estudo empírico avalia a modelagem de características transversais e a extensão do método FArM propostos para projetar arquiteturas de linhas de produtos que sejam fáceis de evoluir. Os dois estudos apresentaram resultados promissores indicando que a solução proposta nesta tese facilita a evolução de arquiteturas de linhas de produtos / Abstract: Product line architectures are essential to facilitate the evolution of product lines, as they handle their complexity by abstracting implementation details. Architectural variability is what differs product line architectures from single system architectures. It reflects the existence of alternative design options and it is expressed by a set of architectural variation points and variants. Architectural variability can hinder product line architecture evolution because the implementation of software variability can increase architecture complexity by possibly adding extra elements and dependencies. Product line variability is usually captured in the feature model and it is implemented by product line architectures. However, the implementation of features, variation points, and variants may be scattered over architectural elements, which can hinder its evolution. In general, product line evolution scenarios involve feature addition/removal, changing a mandatory feature to an optional feature, and so forth. When evolution scenarios affect features whose implementations are scattered over architecture, they can cause a great change impact on several architectural elements. Recent studies have explored the use of aspects to modularize feature implementation in product line architectures. Aspects can modularize crosscutting concerns, which, in the context of product lines, are concerns that affect several features. Nevertheless, these studies do not consider (i) componentized architectures with explicit interfaces, and (ii) the integration of aspects and components to modularize the implementation of architectural variability. Ideally, aspects should be modeled as soon as possible, preferably, together with the feature model in order to enable the design of well structured product line architectures with aspects. However, there are neither models which integrate features and aspects, nor methods that considers aspects to design product line architectures from the feature model. The solution proposed in this thesis involves a comparative study that presents the support for product line architecture evolution provided by the integration of components and aspects. Then, it is proposed an extended view of the feature model which enables to represent crosscutting features. This view, called aspect-oriented feature view, is used to design product line architectures with aspects. Lastly, the FArM method, which provides guidelines to map from the feature model to the product line architecture model, is extended to consider crosscutting features. Two empirical studies were conducted: one to assess whether the integration of components and aspects facilitates product line architecture evolution. The other empirical study evaluates whether the crosscutting feature modeling and the FArM method extension proposed supports the design of evolvable product line architectures. Both studies presented promising results which indicate that the solution proposed in this thesis facilitates product line architecture evolution / Doutorado / Ciência da Computação / Doutor em Ciência da Computação

Orientador: Cecília Mary Fischer Rubira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T01:16:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Iizuka_BrunodeAbreu_M.pdf: 5618330 bytes, checksum: 684e091ec25c7c909bfbdfeae38b8487 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Atualmente, muitos esforços vêm sendo feitos para se obter um maior grau de reutilização durante o desenvolvimento de sistemas. Linha de Produtos de Software (LPS) é uma abordagem que promove a reutilização de software. A Arquitetura de Linha de Produtos (ALP) provê uma perspectiva global das variabilidades da linha, ao passo que engloba os conceitos tradicionais de uma arquitetura de software. Devido às variabilidades de software de uma ALP, a evolução arquitetural é ainda mais complexa, do que quando comparado com evolução de arquiteturas de software convencionais. Tratamento de exceções é uma técnica bastante conhecida para a detecção e tratamento de erros em sistemas de software. Porém, apesar da sua popularidade, o seu projeto e a sua implementação são constituídos de tarefas muito complexas que não recebem uma atenção adequada dos processos de desenvolvimento existentes. Separação de interesses é um dos objetivos do tratamento de exceções para separar o comportamento normal e excepcional do sistema de software. No contexto de uma LPS, a separação de interesses é importante para o design das variabilidades de software relacionadas às estratégias do comportamento normal e do comportamento excepcional, como a escolha de diferentes tratadores de exceções por diferentes características. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é apresentar um método para especificar e implementar a variabilidade de tratamentos de exceções em LPS baseadas em componentes. O método MVTE (Método de Variabilidade de Tratamento de Exceções) é uma combinação de métodos já conhecidos na literatura (PLUS e UML Components) e os modelos COSMOS* e COSMOS*-VP. Para validar o método MVTE foram utilizados dois estudos empíricos, e para medir a sua qualidade foram utilizadas as métricas de impacto de mudanças, acoplamento entre módulos e difusão de interesses / Abstract: Nowadays, many efforts are being made to achieve a higher degree of reuse during the development of systems. Software Product Lines (SPL) is an approach to improve software reuse. A PLA provides a global view of the variability's of a SPL, while it embodies the concepts and advantages of the traditional software architecture. Due to its variability's, a PLA is harder to evolve than a conventional software architecture. Exception handling is a well known technique to detect and treat errors in software systems. However, despite its popularity, its design and implementation are constituted of very complex tasks that do not receive the adequate attention from the existing development processes. Separation of concerns is one of the overarching goals of exception handling in order to keep separate normal and exceptional behavior of a software system. In the context of a software product line (SPL); this separation of concerns is also important for designing software variability's related to normal and exceptional behavior, such as the choice of different handlers depending on the set of selected features. The main goal of this work is to present a method to specify and implement the variability of exception handling in SPL components-based. The method MVTE (Variability of Exception Handler Method) is a combination of methods known in the literature (PLUS and UML Components) and models COSMOS* and COSMOS*-VP. To validate the method MVTE, it was studied two empirical studies, and to measure their quality it was used the metrics impact change, coupling between modules and diffusion over concerns / Mestrado / Ciência da Computação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

The number and complexity of the systems realizing the functionality of the machines in the automotive domain are growing. In this arises the need for a systematic way to manage their development. As the technologies advance, the vehicles introduce an increasing range of capabilities. However, they have similar functions, which have the potential to be reused. One of the widely used approaches that manages the commonality and variability of the development artifacts in a systematic manner is Product Line Engineering (PLE). Consequently, PLE reduces the time to market and the development cost. The machines, realized in the automotive domain, interact with their operators and the surrounding environment. Possible malfunctions of the machines may introduce a risk of accidents with fatal consequences. Therefore, the products should be analyzed, developed and managed in a safe manner and certified according to different relevant safety standards like ISO 15998, ISO 61508 and ISO 26262. There is a diversity of functions in a Product Line (PL). Some of them are mandatory for all machines and others are optional for some models. This gives the opportunity to combine the functions in multiple configurations. However, not all combinations are possible due to dependencies among the functions. Furthermore, the configurations should be valid from a safety perspective, and the developed products should satisfy the requirements identified during the safety analysis. The above mentioned factors emphasize the need for explicit representation of the systems' characteristics, such as commonality and variability, functional dependencies and quality attributes. The purpose of the current work is to find an efficient way to satisfy this need. The scope of our research is limited to the automotive domain. In order to gain familiarity with the state of practice, we collaborated with Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) as an industrial partner. In particular, we: conducted an informal interview study with the practitioners, analyzed the requirements management tool used in Volvo CE and studied products typical for the domain in detail, examined the deliverables defined in the related domain specific safety standards. We gained knowledge on how variability is managed in an industrial context today, which safety aspects need to be considered and how functional safety artifacts are managed with regards to variability. We synthesized the characteristics that are explicitly represented during the development and safety certification of the products in a safety-critical product line. We identified the challenges that the practitioners meet today and the areas that need to be improved. As a result, we formulated evaluation criteria for search and assessment of possible solutions. Subsequently we searched in the literature for different modeling techniques, that are able to respond to the industrial needs, and found the following to be relevant in our context: Feature modeling techniques consider the different variability types and dependencies among the features. Model-based development techniques can represent different views of the system on each level of the development process. Orthogonal modeling techniques extract the variability and dependencies in a different view. Furthermore, we evaluated the methods found during the literature study, based on the proposed criteria. We concluded that the examined techniques alone cannot represent all characteristics needed to support the development of a safety-critical product line, especially the impact of the variability on the safety and vice versa. However, each of them focuses on the presentation of certain aspect of the product line, which can help in building a more complete representation. Thus we focused on the approaches that may be extended and integrated into a complete solution. As a result, we propose a model and graphical notation for variability management in safety-critical product lines, which takes the identified industrial needs into account. The concept is depicted graphically by several model-based diagrams, which represent the different aspects of the product line, on each development level. Special attention is paid to the representation of the safety and variability aspects of the systems. The method is exemplified on an industrial example, in order to show how it achieves the defined goals.

Orientador: Cecília Mary Fischer Rubira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T06:21:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Foschiani_FernandaYaradosSantos_M.pdf: 49651686 bytes, checksum: 9c6b109c2f901376bfd10d30c1ea12c3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: Com o aumento da demanda por software no mercado, a fim de reduzir custos e esforço em desenvolvimento e reduzir o tempo de entrega de software, diversas técnicas vêm sendo utilizadas e entre elas estão as Linhas de Produtos de Software (LPS). Por outro lado, os recursos computacionais vêm sendo muito utilizados não são na indústria, mas também em ambientes de pesquisa, facilitando o compartilhamento de dados e serviços computacionais. Este contexto, em que a computação torna-se parte integrante e fundamental para o sucesso na realização de pesquisas científicas, é chamado de e-Science. A diversidade de programas, simuladores e dados computacionais envolvidos em experimentos levam a necessidade de ambientes que forneçam facilidades para o uso e combinação das tecnologias, como por exemplo, ambientes de workflows científicos. A solução proposta nesta dissertação é uma infraestrutura para a execução de workflows científicos, que permite a pesquisadores criarem seus fluxos de trabalho de maneira personalizada, podendo utilizar componentes disponibilizados pela equipe de desenvolvimento, assim como componentes criados por eles mesmos, independentemente da linguagem de programação utilizada. A base para esta infraestrutura é uma linha de produtos baseada em componentes, desenvolvida a partir de sistemas legados. O método proposto para o desenvolvimento da linha de produtos é apoiado pelo arcabouço da Reengenharia Orientada a Características, separado em quatro fases. A primeira fase, Engenharia Reversa do Sistema Legado, extrai informações do código legado a fim de entender o domínio da aplicação e coletar as características que deverão existir na linha de produtos. A segunda fase do método, Análise da LPS, refina o modelo de características obtido na fase anterior e, utilizando técnicas de modelagem do método PLUS, desenvolve artefatos de software baseados em casos de uso. A fase de Projeto da LPS, terceira fase, aplica o método FArM para obter um mapeamento do modelo de características para modelos de arquitetura de linha de produtos baseada em componentes e especifica as interfaces dos componentes, gerando assim a arquitetura final. A quarta e ultima fase trata do desenvolvimento da linha de produtos. Para o desenvolvimento dos componentes foi utilizado o padrão COSMOS* de componentização, e código legado. Foram realizados três estudos de caso: os dois primeiros para avaliar se a solução proxi posta é capaz de substituir o sistema legado e também avaliar o reuso de componentes, e o terceiro estudo para avaliar a capacidade de customização da linha de produtos, a partir da adição de um novo componente desenvolvido em MatLab. Os três estudos apresentaram resultados positivos, indicando que a solução proposta nesta dissertação facilita a modificação da linha de produtos, além de permitir aos pesquisadores a customização de fluxos de trabalho, auxiliando assim o processo de pesquisa científica / Abstract: With the increasing demand for software in order to reduce development costs and effort, and to reduce the time-to-market, several techniques are being used, including the Software Product Line (SPL). Computational resources are commonly used in the research field, in order to facilitate data and computational services sharing. The context in which computing becomes a fundamental for the success of scientific research is called e-Science. The systems diversity, simulators and computational data involved in experiments leads to the necessity of environments that provide facilities for technology use and matching, for example the scientific workflow environment. The proposed solution in this thesis is a scientific workflow environment that allows the researchers to create their own personalized workflows, using components provided by the development team as well as components developed by themselves, regardless of the language being used. The basis for this workflow environment is a component based software product line, developed from legacy systems. The proposed method for the software product line development is supported by the Feature-oriented Reengineering framework, which is divided into four steps. The first one, SPL Reverse Engineering, extracts information about the legacy system in order to understand the application domain and collect the features that need to exist in the product line. The second step, SPL Analysis, refines the feature model obtained in the previous step and, using PLUS modeling techniques, develops software assets based on use cases. The SPL Project step, which is the third approach step, applies the FArM method to obtain a mapping of the feature model to architectural components, and specifies the components' interface, creating the final architecture. The last step is the product line development. For the components development we used the COSMOS* model and legacy code. We performed three case studies: two of them to evaluate if the product line is capable of replacing the legacy system and enhance components reuse, and the third one to evaluate the workflow customization capability, by the addition of a component developed in MatLab. All the case studies had a positive result, showing that the proposed solution of this ix thesis facilitates the product line architectures evolution and allows the researchers to customize their workflows, aiding the research process / Mestrado / Ciência da Computação / Mestra em Ciência da Computação

In the era of e-Learning, educational materials are considered a crucial point for all the stakeholders. On the one hand, instructors aim at creating learning materials that meet the needs and expectations of learners easily and effec-tively; On the other hand, learners want to acquire knowledge in a way that suits their characteristics and preferences. Consequently, the provision and customization of educational materials to meet the needs of learners is a constant challenge and is currently synonymous with technological devel-opment. Promoting the personalization of learning materials, especially dur-ing their development, will help to produce customized learning materials for specific learners' needs. The main objective of this thesis is to reinforce and strengthen Reuse, Cus-tomization and Ease of Production issues in e-Learning materials during the development process. The thesis deals with the design of a framework based on ontologies and product lines to develop customized Learning Objects (LOs). With this framework, the development of learning materials has the following advantages: (i) large-scale production, (ii) faster development time, (iii) greater (re) use of resources. The proposed framework is the main contribution of this thesis, and is char-acterized by the combination of three models: the Content Model, which addresses important points related to the structure of learning materials, their granularity and levels of aggregation; the Customization Model, which con-siders specific learner characteristics and preferences to customize the learn-ing materials; and the LO Product Line (LOPL) model, which handles the subject of variability and creates matter-them in an easy and flexible way. With these models, instructors can not only develop learning materials, but also reuse and customize them during development. An additional contribution is the Customization Model, which is based on the Learning Style Model (LSM) concept. Based on the study of seven of them, a Global Learning Style Model Ontology (GLSMO) has been con-structed to help instructors with information on the apprentice's characteris-tics and to recommend appropriate LOs for customization. The results of our work have been reflected in the design of an authoring tool for learning materials called LOAT. They have described their require-ments, the elements of their architecture, and some details of their user inter-face. As an example of its use, it includes a case study that shows how its use in the development of some learning components. / En la era del e¿Learning, los materiales educativos se consideran un punto crucial para todos los participantes. Por un lado, los instructores tienen como objetivo crear materiales de aprendizaje que satisfagan las necesidades y ex-pectativas de los alumnos de manera fácil y efectiva; por otro lado, los alumnos quieren adquirir conocimientos de una manera que se adapte a sus características y preferencias. En consecuencia, la provisión y personaliza-ción de materiales educativos para satisfacer las necesidades de los estudian-tes es un desafío constante y es actualmente sinónimo de desarrollo tecnoló-gico. El fomento de la personalización de los materiales de aprendizaje, es-pecialmente durante su desarrollo, ayudará a producir materiales de aprendi-zaje específicos para las necesidades específicas de los alumnos. El objetivo fundamental de esta tesis es reforzar y fortalecer los temas de Reutilización, Personalización y Facilidad de Producción en materiales de e-Learning durante el proceso de desarrollo. La tesis se ocupa del diseño de un marco basado en ontologías y líneas de productos para desarrollar objetos de aprendizaje personalizados. Con este marco, el desarrollo de materiales de aprendizaje tiene las siguientes ventajas: (i) producción a gran escala, (ii) tiempo de desarrollo más rápido, (iii) mayor (re)uso de recursos. El marco propuesto es la principal aportación de esta tesis, y se caracteriza por la combinación de tres modelos: el Modelo de Contenido, que aborda puntos importantes relacionados con la estructura de los materiales de aprendizaje, su granularidad y niveles de agregación, el Modelo de Persona-lización, que considera las características y preferencias específicas del alumno para personalizar los materiales de aprendizaje, y el modelo de Línea de productos LO (LOPL), que maneja el tema de la variabilidad y crea ma-teriales de manera fácil y flexible. Con estos modelos, los instructores no sólo pueden desarrollar materiales de aprendizaje, sino también reutilizarlos y personalizarlos durante el desarrollo. Una contribución adicional es el modelo de personalización, que se basa en el concepto de modelo de estilo de aprendizaje. A partir del estudio de siete de ellos, se ha construido una Ontología de Modelo de Estilo de Aprendiza-je Global para ayudar a los instructores con información sobre las caracterís-ticas del aprendiz y recomendarlos apropiados para personalización. Los resultados de nuestro trabajo se han plasmado en el diseño de una he-rramienta de autor de materiales de aprendizaje llamada LOAT. Se han des-crito sus requisitos, los elementos de su arquitectura, y algunos detalles de su interfaz de usuario. Como ejemplo de su uso, se incluye un caso de estudio que muestra cómo su empleo en el desarrollo de algunos componentes de aprendizaje. / En l'era de l'e¿Learning, els materials educatius es consideren un punt crucial per a tots els participants. D'una banda, els instructors tenen com a objectiu crear materials d'aprenentatge que satisfacen les necessitats i expectatives dels alumnes de manera fàcil i efectiva; d'altra banda, els alumnes volen ad-quirir coneixements d'una manera que s'adapte a les seues característiques i preferències. En conseqüència, la provisio' i personalitzacio' de materials edu-catius per a satisfer les necessitats dels estudiants és un desafiament constant i és actualment sinònim de desenvolupament tecnològic. El foment de la personalitzacio' dels materials d'aprenentatge, especialment durant el seu desenvolupament, ajudarà a produir materials d'aprenentatge específics per a les necessitats concretes dels alumnes. L'objectiu fonamental d'aquesta tesi és reforçar i enfortir els temes de Reutilització, Personalització i Facilitat de Producció en materials d'e-Learning durant el procés de desenvolupament. La tesi s'ocupa del disseny d'un marc basat en ontologies i línia de productes per a desenvolupar objec-tes d'aprenentatge personalitzats. Amb aquest marc, el desenvolupament de materials d'aprenentatge té els següents avantatges: (i) produccio' a gran esca-la, (ii) temps de desenvolupament mes ràpid, (iii) major (re)ús de recursos. El marc proposat és la principal aportacio' d'aquesta tesi, i es caracteritza per la combinacio' de tres models: el Model de Contingut, que aborda punts im-portants relacionats amb l'estructura dels materials d'aprenentatge, la se-ua granularitat i nivells d'agregació, el Model de Línia de Producte, que ges-tiona el tema de la variabilitat i crea materials d'aprenentatge de manera fàcil i flexible. Amb aquests models, els instructors no solament poden desenvolu-par materials d'aprenentatge, sinó que també poden reutilitzar-los i personalit-zar-los durant el desenvolupament. Una contribucio' addicional és el Model de Personalitzacio', que es basa en el concepte de model d'estil d'aprenentatge. A partir de l'estudi de set d'ells, s'ha construït una Ontologia de Model d'Estil d'Aprenentatge Global per a ajudar als instructors amb informacio' sobre les característiques de l'aprenent i recomanar els apropiats per a personalitzacio'. Els resultats del nostre treball s'han plasmat en el disseny d'una eina d'autor de materials d'aprenentatge anomenada LOAT. S'han descrit els seus requi-sits, els elements de la seua arquitectura, i alguns detalls de la seua interfície d'usuari. Com a exemple del seu ús, s'inclou un cas d'estudi que mostra com és el desenvolupament d'alguns components d'aprenentatge. / Ezzat Labib Awad, A. (2017). Enforcing Customization in e-Learning Systems: an ontology and product line-based approach [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/90515 / TESIS

Use cases are textual artifacts used to define the expected behavior of a system. However, use cases become more complicated when applied in a product line context since they need to define the behavior of several systems. Product line use cases require knowledge of commonality and variability concepts, which all involved stakeholders do not necessarily possess. Product-specific use cases are more understandable since they do not include variability information. Therefore, it would be beneficial to derive product-specific use cases from the product line use cases once the variability has been bound. This derivation could alleviate communication and help create a shared understanding of the product's expected behavior amongst diverse stakeholders.  In this thesis work, we have implemented a tool that can perform this type of derivation. The tool is divided into two collaborating parts. The first part is an extension to DOORS, which is responsible for creating and maintaining product line use cases. The second part is a third-party application responsible for binding the variability and deriving product-specific use cases. This tool was evaluated using a questionnaire with participants from Alstom, a company within the railway transportation domain. The evaluation showed that the tool has potential as a vehicle for communication amongst diverse stakeholders. / Use cases är textuella artefakter vilka används för att definiera det förväntade beteendet hos system. Dock så blir use cases mer komplicerade när de appliceras inom en produktionslinje-kontext, eftersom de då behöver definiera beteendet av flera olika system. Användandet av produktionslinje use cases kräver kännedom av kommonalitet och variabilitet koncept, vilket alla inblandade delägare inte nödvändigtvis behärskar. Därför skulle det vara gynnsamt om man kunde derivera produktspecifika use cases från produktionslinje use cases när dess variabilitet har bundits. Denna derivation skulle kunna underlätta kommunikation och skapa en gemensam förståelse av produktens förväntande beteende bland delägare med olika bakgrunder.    I detta avhandlingsarbete har vi implementerat ett verktyg som kan utföra denna typ av derivation. Verktyget är uppdelat i två samarbetande delar. Den första delen är ett tilläggsprogram till DOORS, vilken är ansvarigt för att skapa och underhålla produktionslinje use cases. Den andra delen är en tredjeparts applikation vilken är ansvarig för att binda variabiliteten och derivera fram produktspecifika use cases. Verktyget evaluerades med ett frågeformulär med tio deltagare från Alstom, ett företag inom järnvägstransport området. Denna evaluering visade att verktyget har potential att användas som ett fordon för kommunikation mellan delägare med olika bakgrunder.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:47:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FellipeAA_TESE.pdf: 3718694 bytes, checksum: ce9f8bd2cb41f94ca63270d9cfe0484c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-19 / Nowadays, the importance of using software processes is already consolidated and is considered fundamental to the success of software development projects. Large and medium software projects demand the definition and continuous improvement of software processes in order to promote the productive development of high-quality software. Customizing and evolving existing software processes to address the variety of scenarios, technologies, culture and scale is a recurrent challenge required by the software industry. It involves the adaptation of software process models for the reality of their projects. Besides, it must also promote the reuse of past experiences in the definition and development of software processes for the new projects. The adequate management and execution of software processes can bring a better quality and productivity to the produced software systems. This work aimed to explore the use and adaptation of consolidated software product lines techniques to promote the management of the variabilities of software process families. In order to achieve this aim: (i) a systematic literature review is conducted to identify and characterize variability management approaches for software processes; (ii) an annotative approach for the variability management of software process lines is proposed and developed; and finally (iii) empirical studies and a controlled experiment assess and compare the proposed annotative approach against a compositional one. One study a comparative qualitative study analyzed the annotative and compositional approaches from different perspectives, such as: modularity, traceability, error detection, granularity, uniformity, adoption, and systematic variability management. Another study a comparative quantitative study has considered internal attributes of the specification of software process lines, such as modularity, size and complexity. Finally, the last study a controlled experiment evaluated the effort to use and the understandability of the investigated approaches when modeling and evolving specifications of software process lines. The studies bring evidences of several benefits of the annotative approach, and the potential of integration with the compositional approach, to assist the variability management of software process lines / A ind?stria de software encontra-se, nos dias de hoje, em um cen?rio altamente din?mico, o qual reflete o mundo dos neg?cios e a sociedade como um todo. A demanda por sistemas de software ?, dessa forma, cada vez mais crescente e visa atender a diferentes dom?nios. Nesse cen?rio, onde sistemas de software complexos precisam ser desenvolvidos com um excelente n?vel de qualidade e consumindo menor quantidade de recursos; aumenta a import?ncia da defini??o de processos de software. Por?m, tais processos necessitam ser devidamente adaptados aos contextos espec?ficos de cada projeto, de forma a garantir a qualidade dos produtos de software desenvolvidos bem como o uso eficaz dos recursos dispon?veis. Para que essa adapta??o dos processos de software ocorra de forma eficaz, ? necess?rio promover a reutiliza??o de especifica??es de processos j? existentes, bem como experi?ncias e pr?ticas de sucesso passadas. Este trabalho explora a ado??o de t?cnicas de engenharia de linha de produtos de software de forma a promover a ger?ncia de variabilidades de fam?lias de processos de software. Para um melhor entendimento do problema em quest?o foi realizada uma revis?o sistem?tica da literatura, a qual identificou um conjunto de abordagens para a ger?ncia de variabilidades em processos de software e suas principais caracter?sticas. Tamb?m foi realizada a proposta de uma abordagem anotativa para a ger?ncia de variabilidades em processos de software, bem como um estudo explorat?rio visando a concretiza??o dessa abordagem e a implementa??o de um prot?tipo de ferramenta para auxiliar na aplica??o da mesma. A abordagem anotativa proposta foi, ent?o, avaliada e comparada com a abordagem composicional do EPF Composer. Tais avalia??es foram conduzidas por meio da realiza??o de estudos emp?ricos e um experimento controlado. Nos estudos emp?ricos as abordagens foram avaliadas: (i) qualitativamente de acordo com um conjunto de crit?rios de an?lise da especifica??o de suas variabilidades; e (ii) quantitativamente por meio da compara??o de valores obtidos para m?tricas de modularidade, tamanho e complexidade para as especifica??es de uma mesma linha de processo usando as abordagens anotativa e composicionais. O experimento controlado teve como objetivo comparar as abordagens anotativa e composicional sob a perspectiva do esfor?o e entendimento das abordagens quando utilizadas na especifica??o de variabilidades em uma linha de processos de software. Os estudos evidenciaram diversos benef?cios proporcionados pela abordagem anotativa no contexto de linhas de processos de software e seu potencial de integra??o com abordagens composicionais para auxiliar na modelagem de variabilidades em processos de software

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:48:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EdmilsonBCN_DISSERT.pdf: 2688212 bytes, checksum: bae476692f237de556a79c9741333002 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-05 / The software systems development with domain-specific languages has become increasingly common. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) provide increased of the domain expressiveness, raising the abstraction level by facilitating the generation of models or low-level source code, thus increasing the productivity of systems development. Consequently, methods for the development of software product lines and software system families have also proposed the adoption of domain-specific languages. Recent studies have investigated the limitations of feature model expressiveness and proposing the use of DSLs as a complement or substitute for feature model. However, in complex projects, a single DSL is often insufficient to represent the different views and perspectives of development, being necessary to work with multiple DSLs. In order to address new challenges in this context, such as the management of consistency between DSLs, and the need to methods and tools that support the development with multiple DSLs, over the past years, several approaches have been proposed for the development of generative approaches. However, none of them considers matters relating to the composition of DSLs. Thus, with the aim to address this problem, the main objectives of this dissertation are: (i) to investigate the adoption of the integrated use of feature models and DSLs during the domain and application engineering of the development of generative approaches; (ii) to propose a method for the development of generative approaches with composition DSLs; and (iii) to investigate and evaluate the usage of modern technology based on models driven engineering to implement strategies of integration between feature models and composition of DSLs / A utiliza??o de linguagens espec?ficas de dom?nios para o desenvolvimento de sistemas de software tem se tornado cada vez mais comum. Elas propiciam um aumento da expressividade do dom?nio, elevando o seu n?vel de abstra??o atrav?s de facilidades para gera??o de modelos ou c?digos de baixo-n?vel, que aumentam assim a produtividade do desenvolvimento de sistemas. Como consequ?ncia, m?todos para o desenvolvimento de linhas de produtos de software e fam?lias de sistemas tamb?m t?m proposto a utiliza??o de linguagens espec?ficas de dom?nio (domain-specific languages DSLs). Estudos recentes t?m investigado os limites de expressividade do modelo de features, e propondo o uso de DSLs em sua substitui??o ou complemento. Contudo, em projetos complexos, uma ?nica DSL muitas vezes ? insuficiente para representar as diferentes vis?es e perspectivas do desenvolvimento, sendo necess?rio trabalhar com m?ltiplas DSLs. Com isso surgem novos desafios, tais como a ger?ncia de consist?ncia entre as DSLs, e a necessidade de m?todos e ferramentas que ofere?am suporte ao desenvolvimento com m?ltiplas DSLs. Ao longo dos ?ltimos anos, diversas abordagens t?m sido propostas para o desenvolvimento de abordagens generativas, entretanto, nenhuma delas considera quest?es relacionadas ? composi??o de DSLs. Assim, visando abordar tal problem?tica, os principais objetivos desta disserta??o s?o: (i) investigar a ado??o do uso integrado de modelos de features e DSLs tanto na engenharia de dom?nio quanto de aplica??o de desenvolvimento de abordagens generativas; (ii) propor um m?todo para o desenvolvimento de abordagens generativas com composi??o de DSLs; e (iii) investigar e avaliar o uso de tecnologias atuais de engenharia dirigida por modelos na implementa??o de estrat?gias de integra??o entre modelos de features e composi??o de DSLs