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

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]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/90515

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

Over the last years, Web services have become increasingly popular. It is because they allow businesses to share data and business process (BP) logic through a programmatic interface across networks. In order to reach the full potential of Web services, they can be combined to achieve specifi c functionalities. Web services run in complex contexts where arising events may compromise the quality of the system (e.g. a sudden security attack). As a result, it is desirable to count on mechanisms to adapt Web service compositions (or simply called service compositions) according to problematic events in the context. Since critical systems may require prompt responses, manual adaptations are unfeasible in large and intricate service compositions. Thus, it is suitable to have autonomic mechanisms to guide their self-adaptation. One way to achieve this is by implementing variability constructs at the language level. However, this approach may become tedious, difficult to manage, and error-prone as the number of con figurations for the service composition grows. The goal of this thesis is to provide a model-driven framework to guide autonomic adjustments of context-aware service compositions. This framework spans over design time and runtime to face arising known and unknown context events (i.e., foreseen and unforeseen at design time) in the close and open worlds respectively. At design time, we propose a methodology for creating the models that guide autonomic changes. Since Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) lacks support for systematic reuse of service operations, we represent service operations as Software Product Line (SPL) features in a variability model. As a result, our approach can support the construction of service composition families in mass production-environments. In order to reach optimum adaptations, the variability model and its possible con figurations are verifi ed at design time using Constraint Programming (CP). At runtime, when problematic events arise in the context, the variability model is leveraged for guiding autonomic changes of the service composition. The activation and deactivation of features in the variability model result in changes in a composition model that abstracts the underlying service composition. Changes in the variability model are refl ected into the service composition by adding or removing fragments of Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) code, which are deployed at runtime. Model-driven strategies guide the safe migration of running service composition instances. Under the closed-world assumption, the possible context events are fully known at design time. These events will eventually trigger the dynamic adaptation of the service composition. Nevertheless, it is diffi cult to foresee all the possible situations arising in uncertain contexts where service compositions run. Therefore, we extend our framework to cover the dynamic evolution of service compositions to deal with unexpected events in the open world. If model adaptations cannot solve uncertainty, the supporting models self-evolve according to abstract tactics that preserve expected requirements. / Alférez Salinas, GH. (2013). Achieving Autonomic Web Service Compositions with Models at Runtime [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/34672

A recent trend in software industry is to provide enterprise applications in the cloud that are accessible everywhere and on any device. As the market is highly competitive, customer orientation plays an important role. Companies therefore start providing applications as a service, which are directly configurable by customers in an online self-service portal. However, customer configurations are usually deployed in separated application instances. Thus, each instance is provisioned manually and must be maintained separately. Due to the induced redundancy in software and hardware components, resources are not optimally utilized. A multi-tenant aware application architecture eliminates redundancy, as a single application instance serves multiple customers renting the application. The combination of a configuration self-service portal with a multi-tenant aware application architecture allows serving customers just-in-time by automating the deployment process. Furthermore, self-service portals improve application scalability in terms of functionality, as customers can adapt application configurations on themselves according to their changing demands. However, the configurability of current multi-tenant aware applications is rather limited. Solutions implementing variability are mainly developed for a single business case and cannot be directly transferred to other application scenarios. The goal of this thesis is to provide a generic framework for handling application variability, automating configuration and reconfiguration processes essential for self-service portals, while exploiting the advantages of multi-tenancy. A promising solution to achieve this goal is the application of software product line methods. In software product line research, feature models are in wide use to express variability of software intense systems on an abstract level, as features are a common notion in software engineering and prominent in matching customer requirements against product functionality. This thesis introduces a framework for feature-based configuration management of reconfigurable cloud applications. The contribution is three-fold. First, a development strategy for flexible multi-tenant aware applications is proposed, capable of integrating customer configurations at application runtime. Second, a generic method for defining concern-specific configuration perspectives is contributed. Perspectives can be tailored for certain application scopes and facilitate the handling of numerous configuration options. Third, a novel method is proposed to model and automate structured configuration processes that adapt to varying stakeholders and reduce configuration redundancies. Therefore, configuration processes are modeled as workflows and adapted by applying rewrite rules triggered by stakeholder events. The applicability of the proposed concepts is evaluated in different case studies in the industrial and academic context. Summarizing, the introduced framework for feature-based configuration management is a foundation for automating configuration and reconfiguration processes of multi-tenant aware cloud applications, while enabling application scalability in terms of functionality.

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.

A recent trend in software industry is to provide enterprise applications in the cloud that are accessible everywhere and on any device. As the market is highly competitive, customer orientation plays an important role. Companies therefore start providing applications as a service, which are directly configurable by customers in an online self-service portal. However, customer configurations are usually deployed in separated application instances. Thus, each instance is provisioned manually and must be maintained separately. Due to the induced redundancy in software and hardware components, resources are not optimally utilized. A multi-tenant aware application architecture eliminates redundancy, as a single application instance serves multiple customers renting the application. The combination of a configuration self-service portal with a multi-tenant aware application architecture allows serving customers just-in-time by automating the deployment process. Furthermore, self-service portals improve application scalability in terms of functionality, as customers can adapt application configurations on themselves according to their changing demands. However, the configurability of current multi-tenant aware applications is rather limited. Solutions implementing variability are mainly developed for a single business case and cannot be directly transferred to other application scenarios. The goal of this thesis is to provide a generic framework for handling application variability, automating configuration and reconfiguration processes essential for self-service portals, while exploiting the advantages of multi-tenancy. A promising solution to achieve this goal is the application of software product line methods. In software product line research, feature models are in wide use to express variability of software intense systems on an abstract level, as features are a common notion in software engineering and prominent in matching customer requirements against product functionality. This thesis introduces a framework for feature-based configuration management of reconfigurable cloud applications. The contribution is three-fold. First, a development strategy for flexible multi-tenant aware applications is proposed, capable of integrating customer configurations at application runtime. Second, a generic method for defining concern-specific configuration perspectives is contributed. Perspectives can be tailored for certain application scopes and facilitate the handling of numerous configuration options. Third, a novel method is proposed to model and automate structured configuration processes that adapt to varying stakeholders and reduce configuration redundancies. Therefore, configuration processes are modeled as workflows and adapted by applying rewrite rules triggered by stakeholder events. The applicability of the proposed concepts is evaluated in different case studies in the industrial and academic context. Summarizing, the introduced framework for feature-based configuration management is a foundation for automating configuration and reconfiguration processes of multi-tenant aware cloud applications, while enabling application scalability in terms of functionality.