In it´s theoretical part, my master thesis handles selected softwares for wastewater treatment mathematical modelling. It summarizes and compares availible softwares on the market, it´s use, advantages and disadvantages. The practical part deals with an exemplar evaluation of selected wastewater treatment plant according to Czech normative standards and evaluation of the same wastewater treatment plant per mathematical model created in WEST program. The assembly of a wastewater treatment plant model consisted of studies, creation of the layout, insertion of provided data, calibration and model evaluation.

Toute institution concernée par le développement de logiciels, qu’il s’agisse d’un éditeur ou d’un organisme de services, doit faire face au challenge de compétitivité : “ faire de l’économie, un «objet de première classe» en génie logiciel ”. Cet impératif de penser l’économie du logiciel, s’est traduit par l’objectif d’obtenir une meilleure maîtrise sur la productivité du développeur. La Réutilisation Logicielle (Software Reuse) est un moyen privilégié d’augmenter cette productivité, en particulier quand elle est systématisée. Deux types d’activités doivent être considérés pour améliorer la réutilisation logicielle, le développement pour la réutilisation (development for reuse) et le développement par la réutilisation (development by reuse). Plusieurs solutions ont été proposées pour contribuer au développement pour la réutilisation. L’approche lignes de produits se distingue par sa contribution au développement par la réutilisation, à travers l’assistance et l’automatisation de la sélection, la configuration, et la dérivation de nouveaux produits. Néanmoins, malgré que cette approche a positionné la réutilisation comme activité centrale dans son processus de développement, celle-ci reste difficile à réaliser dans beaucoup de situations. Par exemple, en raison de l’absence de spécification ou gestion de la variabilité qui peut se manifester dans chacun des artefacts de toutes les étapes du cycle de développement. Dans ce cadre, la problématique générale de cette thèse CIFRE consiste en l’industrialisation d’une usine logicielle par la systématisation de la réutilisation dans chacune de ses étapes et la maximisation de l’automatisation des transitions entre étapes. Afin de mieux supporter l’agilité des environnements métier, notre premier objectif est la spécification de la variabilité au sein des modèles de processus métier, de sorte que les modèles conçus soient directement utilisables dans les usines logicielles. Notre second objectif consiste à introduire la spécification de la variabilité lors de l'ingénierie des exigences permettant ainsi de systématiser leur réutilisation, et l’établissement des liens de traçabilité avec les modèles de processus métier variables précédents. Ainsi, un modèle d’architecture logicielle (orientée services) peut être généré au sein de l'usine logicielle, comme implémentation des processus métier modélisés précédemment et dans le respect des exigences spécifiées. / Any organization involved in software engineering has to deal with reduction of production time and cost, in order to face the competitiveness challenge. This imperative of thinking the software economy resulted in the goal of getting better control on developer productivity. Software Reuse is a preferred way to increase the productivity, particularly when it is systematized. Two types of activities should be considered to improve software reuse, development for reuse and development by reuse. Several solutions have been proposed to contribute and improve development for reuse. For its part, product line approach is distinguished by its contribution to development by reuse through support and automation of selection, configuration, and derivation of new products. However, although this approach has positioned reuse as a core activity in its engineering process, it remains difficult to realize it in many situations. For example, due to lack of specification or management of variability which may occur in each artifacts from all steps of the engineering process. In this context, the general issue of this thesis consists in industrialization of software product line, by the contribution to systematization of reuse in each steps and automation of transitions between those steps. To better support the business agility, our first goal is the specification of variability within business process models, in order to make them directly usable into software factory. Our second goal is to introduce variability specification into requirements engineering, enabling systematic reuse of requirements models and establishing traceability links with previous models of variable business processes. Thus, an architecture model (service oriented) can be generated in software factory, as implementation of modeled business processes with compliance to specified requirements.

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Variabilitätsinformationen aus den Quelltext von Generatoren extrahiert werden können. Zu diesem Zweck wurde eine Klassifizierung von Variablen entwickelt, die im Vergleich zu bestehenden Ansätzen eine genauere Identifikation von Merkmalen ermöglicht. Zudem bildet die Unterteilung die Basis der Erkennung von Merkmalinteraktionen und Cross-tree-Constraints. Weiterhin wird gezeigt, wie die gewonnenen Informationen durch Merkmalmodelle dargestellt werden können. Da diese auf dem Generator-Quelltext basieren, liefern sie Erkenntnisse über den Lösungsraum der Domäne. Es wird sichtbar, aus welchen Implementierungskomponenten ein Merkmal besteht und welche Beziehungen es zwischen Merkmalen gibt. Allerdings liefert ein automatisch generiertes Merkmalmodell nur wenig Erkenntnisse über den Lösungsraum. Außerdem wurde ein Prototyp entwickelt, der eine Automatisierung des beschriebenen Extraktionsprozesses ermöglicht.

Nous avons commencé la thèse par la littérature d'enquête sur les approches SPLE et CbyC dans l'état de l'art. Sur la base de l'aperçu et des connaissances obtenues, nous avons analysé les problèmes existants et suggéré des moyens de les résoudre pour notre objectif principal. Nous avons proposé dans le chapitre 2 une méthodologie pour développer des lignes de produits afin que les produits générés soient corrects par construction. Notre intention principale est qu'un utilisateur n'a pas besoin de connaître le processus de génération de produit mais peut recevoir un produit final correct en sélectionnant une configuration de fonctionnalité. En utilisant la méthodologie, les produits finaux sont générés automatiquement et leur exactitude est garantie. À la suite de cette proposition, nous sommes passés au chapitre 3 pour définir la langue de FFML qui est utilisé pour l'écriture de modules. Le mécanisme de réutilisation et de modification, défini pour la langue et appliqué à toutes sortes d'artefacts (spécification, code et preuve de précision) réduit l'effort de programmation. Au chapitre 4, nous nous sommes concentrés sur la définition des mécanismes de composition pour la composition des modules FFML et les intégrons à l'outil FFML Product Generator. L'évaluation de notre méthodologie est réalisée par le développement de deux lignes de produits logiciels, le compte bancaire SPL et le SPL de poker, ce dernier étant un peu plus complexe que le premier. Dans l'évaluation, nous avons souligné les avantages et la limitation de notre méthodologie. / We began the thesis by survey literature on SPLE and CbyC approaches in the State of the Art. Based on the overview and the insights obtained, we have analyzed the existing problems and suggested ways to solve them for our main goal. We have proposed in Chapter 2 a methodology to develop product lines such that the generated products are correct-by-construction. Our main intention is that a user does not need to know the product generation process but can receive a correct final product from selecting a configuration of features. Using the methodology, the final products are generated automatically and their correctness is guaranteed. Following this proposal, we have moved in Chapter 3 to define the FFML language that is used for writing modules. The reuse and modification mechanism, defined for the language and applied to all kinds of artifacts (specification, code and correctness proof), reduce the programming effort. In Chapter 4, we have focused on defining the composition mechanisms for composing FFML modules and embedded them into the FFML Product Generator tool. The evaluation of our methodology is performed through the development of two software product lines, the Bank Account SPL and the Poker SPL, the latter being a bit more complex than the former. In the evaluation, we have highlighted the advantages and the limitation of our methodology.

Software product line engineering is a common method for designing complex software systems. Feature modeling is the most common approach to specify product lines. A feature model is a feature diagram (a special tree of features) plus some crosscutting constraints. Feature modeling languages are grouped into basic and cardinality-based models. The common understanding of the semantics of feature models is a Boolean semantics. We discuss a major deficiency of this semantics and fix it by applying, in turn, modal logic, the theory of multisets, and formal language theory. In order to adequately represent the semantics of basic models, we propose a Kripke semantics and show that basic feature modeling needs a modal rather than Boolean logic. We propose two multiset based theories for cardinality-based feature diagrams, called flat and hierarchical semantics. We show that the hierarchical semantics of a given cardinality-based diagram captures all information in the diagram. We also charac- terize sets of multisets, which can provide a hierarchical semantics of some diagrams. We provide three different reduction processes going from a cardinality-based diagram to an appropriate regular expression. As for crosscutting constraints, we propose a formal language interpretation of them. We also characterize some existing analysis operations over feature models in terms of operations on the corresponding languages and discuss the relevant decidability problems. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Une Ligne de Produits Logiciels (LPL) supporte la gestion d’une famille de logiciels. Cette approche se caractérise par une réutilisation systématique des artefacts communs qui réduit le coût et le temps de mise sur le marché et augmente la qualité des logiciels. Cependant, une LPL exige un investissement initial coûteux. Certaines organisations qui ne peuvent pas faire face à un tel investissement, utilisent le « Clone-and-own » C&O pour construire et faire évoluer des familles de logiciels. Cependant, l'efficacité de cette pratique se dégrade proportionnellement à la croissance de la famille de produits, qui devient difficile à maintenir. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons une approche hybride qui utilise à la fois une LPL et l'approche C&O pour faire évoluer une famille de produits logiciels. Un mécanisme automatique d’identification des correspondances entre les « features » caractérisant les produits et les artéfacts logiciels, permet la migration des variantes de produits développées en C&O dans une LPL. L’originalité de ce travail est alors d’aider à la dérivation de nouveaux produits en proposant différents scenarii d’opérations C&O à effectuer pour dériver un nouveau produit à partir des features requis. Le développeur peut alors réduire ces possibilités en exprimant ses préférences (e.g. produits, artefacts) et en utilisant les estimations de coûts sur les opérations que nous proposons. Les nouveaux produits ainsi construits sont alors facilement intégrés dans la LPL. Nous avons étayé cette thèse en développant le framework SUCCEED (SUpporting Clone-and-own with Cost-EstimatEd Derivation) et l’avons appliqué à une étude de cas sur des familles de portails web. / A Software Product Line (SPL) manages commonalities and variability of a related software products family. This approach is characterized by a systematic reuse that reduces development cost and time to market and increases software quality. However, building an SPL requires an initial expensive investment. Therefore, organizations that are not able to deal with such an up-front investment, tend to develop a family of software products using simple and intuitive practices. Clone-and-own (C&O) is an approach adopted widely by software developers to construct new product variants from existing ones. However, the efficiency of this practice degrades proportionally to the growth of the family of products in concern, that becomes difficult to manage. In this dissertation, we propose a hybrid approach that utilizes both SPL and C&O to develop and evolve a family of software products. An automatic mechanism of identification of the correspondences between the features of the products and the software artifacts, allows the migration of the product variants developed in C&O in an SPL The originality of this work is then to help the derivation of new products by proposing different scenarios of C&O operations to be performed to derive a new product from the required features. The developer can then reduce these possibilities by expressing her preferences (e.g. products, artifacts) and using the proposed cost estimations on the operations. We realized our approach by developing SUCCEED, a framework for SUpporting Clone-and-own with Cost-EstimatEd Derivation. We validate our works on a case study of families of web portals.

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)

Context: At the core of choosing what features and level of quality to realize, and thus offer a market or customer, rests on the ability to take decisions. Decision-making is complicated by the diverse understanding of issues such as priority, consequence of realization, and interpretations of strategy as pertaining to the short-term and long-term development of software intensive products. The complexity is further compounded by the amount of decision support material that has to be taken into account, and the sheer volume of possible alternatives that have to be triaged and prioritized; thousands or even tens of thousands of requirements can be the reality facing a company. There is a need to develop the functionality that is strategically most significant, while satisfying customers and being competitive, time efficient, cost effective, and risk minimizing. In order to achieve a balance between these factors, all the stakeholders, within an organization, need to agree on the strategic aspects and value considerations to be considered, and their corresponding relative importance. Objective: The objective of this thesis is to provide enhanced decision support for product managers faced with decision-making challenges. This involves, but is not limited to, enhancing the alignment between the product and portfolio management with respect to product strategies, and enabling the use of value as a basis for product management and development related decisions. Method: A number of empirical studies, set in industry, have been performed. The research methods used span from systematic mapping, and systematic reviews to case studies, all aligned to identify possibilities for improvement, devise solutions, and incrementally evaluate said solutions. Close collaboration with industry partners was at the core of the research presented in this thesis. Result: The MASS method presented in this thesis can be used to evaluate strategic alignment and identify possible root causes for misalignment. To strengthen strategic alignment, the Software Value Map and corresponding decision support material, proposed in the thesis, can be used by product managers for making effective and efficient strategic decisions in relation to portfolios, products and process improvement, following a systematic and aligned process. Conclusions: The area of software product management, in the context of market-driven software intensive product development, is a field with unique challenges. The specifics of the solutions are based on industry case studies performed to gauge state-of-the-art, as well as identify the main challenges. The decision support developed takes the form of maps and frameworks that support software product management on product and portfolio level decisions, strategic alignment, value-based requirements selection, and value-based process improvement.

Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre de la gestion des modèles de lignes de produits logiciels complexes. L’ingénierie des lignes de produits logiciels a pour objectif de modéliser et développer une famille de produits logiciels présentant un ensemble de similarités plutôt que de modéliser et développer des produits logiciels individuels au cas par cas. La modélisation, cependant, peut se révéler une tâche difficile voir même infaisable quand il s’agit de modéliser des lignes de produits logiciels complexes et à grande échelle. Pour résoudre un tel problème, la tâche de modélisation est distribuée sur différents intervenants. Les modèles développés séparément doivent alors être composés pour obtenir le modèle global de la ligne de produits logiciels. Toutefois, la composition des modèles de lignes de produits logiciels n’est pas une tâche triviale car elle doit prendre en compte l’information de variabilité des éléments de modèles, les contraintes de variabilité, la structure des modèles manipulés et la sémantique ciblée par la composition. L’objectif de cette thèse est de fournir des mécanismes de composition des modèles de lignes de produits logiciels. Pour cela, deux mécanismes sont proposés : la fusion et l’agrégation. La fusion a pour objectif de combiner des modèles présentant des similarités au niveau de leurs éléments structurels. Alors que l’agrégation vise à composer des modèles ne possèdent pas de similarités mais plutôt d’éventuelles contraintes transversales reliant leurs éléments structurels. Les modèles utilisés sont représentés sous une vue de structures composites d’UML et incluent des annotations spécifiques des éléments variables. Les mécanismes que nous proposons traitent l’information de variabilité des éléments structurels manipulés, les contraintes de variabilités associées aux éléments annotés variables ainsi que l’aspect structurel des modèles à composer. Les mécanismes de composition proposés sont définis selon des propriétés sémantiques bien précises décrivant le but de la composition. Ces propriétés sémantiques doivent alors être vérifiées tout au long du processus de composition. A la fin, une évaluation du travail effectué permet de montrer la capacité à composer des modèles de lignes de produits logiciels en un temps raisonnable ainsi que l’importance de la consolidation des modèles structurels dans la réduction du nombre de produits structurellement incomplets. / The Software Product Line (SPL) engineering aims at modeling and developing a set of software systems with similarities rather than individual software systems. Modeling task can be, however, tedious or even infeasible for large scale and complex SPLs. To address such a problem, the modeling task is distributed among different stakeholders. At the end, the models separately developed have to be composed in order to obtain the global SPL model. Composing SPL models is not a trivial task; variability information of model elements has to be treated during the composition, as well as the variability constraints. Similarly, the model structure and the composition semantics are key points that have to be considered during the composition. This thesis aims at providing specific mechanisms to compose SPL models. Therefore, we propose two composition mechanisms: the merge and the aggregation mechanisms. The merge mechanism aims at combining models including structural similarities. The aggregation mechanism, however, intends to compose models without any structural similarity but having eventual constraints across their structural elements. We focus on UML composite structures of SPLs and use specific annotations to identify variable elements. Our composition mechanisms deal with the variability information of structural elements, the variability constraints associated with the variable elements as well as the structures of the manipulated models. We also specify a set of semantic properties that have to be considered during the composition process and show how to preserve them. At the end, we have carried out an assessment of the proposals and have showed their ability to compose SPL models in a reasonable time. We have also showed how model consolidation is important in reducing le number of products having incomplete structure.

Linha de Produto de Software (LP) é uma forma sistemática de promover a geração de produtos de software específicos baseados no reúso de uma infraestrutura bem definida. Conceitos de LP aplicados ao domínio de Gestão de Processos de Negócio (BPM - Business Process Management) já apresentaram resultados significativos, entretanto, o escopo de aplicação e os benefícios ainda são limitados. Essas limitações ocorrem, pois as abordagens de LP já existentes para BPM normalmente não cobrem todo o ciclo de vida de processos de negócio e não oferecem o devido tratamento aos aspectos dinâmicos que as organizações demandam para esse domínio. Linha de Produto de Software Dinâmica (LPD) é uma evolução das LPs tradicionais que tem proporcionado uma forma eficiente para lidar com adaptações de produtos em tempo de execução. LPDs podem ser aplicadas, por exemplo, no contexto de arquiteturas SOA (Service-oriented Architecture), que por sua vez podem ser usadas como base tecnológica para viabilizar BPM nas organizações. Dentro desse contexto, este trabalho propõe uma abordagem de LPD para atender as necessidades de organizações interessadas em realizar processos de negócio, por meio de um alinhamento entre conceitos de BPM e SOA. A abordagem proposta aqui, denominada Dynamic Product Line for Business Process Management (DynPL4BPM), visa ser abrangente o suficiente para cobrir todo o ciclo de vida de BPM, sendo previsto o tratamento de aspectos dinâmicos que o domínio de BPM requer. Uma avaliação sistemática e comparativa demonstrou que a abordagem proposta é bem sucedida em apresentar processos bem mais abrangentes que outras soluções similares já propostas na literatura para o mesmo fim. / Software Product Line (PL) is a systematic way to promote the generation of specific software products based on the reuse of a well-defined infrastructure. Concepts of PL applied to Business Process Management (BPM) have already presented significant results; however, the application scope and benefits are still limited. These limitations occur because the existing approaches of LP for BPM usually do not cover the entire lifecycle of business processes and do not provide proper treatment to the dynamic aspects that organizations demand for this domain. Dynamic Software Product Line (DPL) is an evolution of traditional PLs that has provided an efficient way to deal with adaptations of products at runtime. DPLs can be applied, for example, in the SOA (Service-oriented Architecture) context, which in turn can be used as technological basis to enable BPM within organizations. Within this context, this dissertation proposes a DPL approach to meet the needs of organizations interested in carrying out business processes by means of an alignment between BPM and SOA concepts. The approach proposed here, called Dynamic Product Line for Business Process Management (DynPL4BPM), aims to be comprehensive enough to cover the entire BPM lifecycle, including the treatment of dynamic aspects that the BPM domain requires. A systematic and comparative assessment showed that the proposed approach is successful in presenting processes much more comprehensive than other similar solutions already proposed in the literature for the same purpose.