Abstract

CORREA, Daniel; MAZO, Raúl  and  GIRALDO-GOMEZ, Gloria Lucia. Fragment-oriented programming: a framework to design and implement software product line domain components. Dyna rev.fac.nac.minas [online]. 2018, vol.85, n.207, pp.74-83. ISSN 0012-7353.  https://doi.org/10.15446/dyna.v85n207.71908.

Software product lines facilitate the industrialization of software development. The main goal is to create a set of reusable software components for the rapid production of a software systems family. Many authors have proposed different approaches to design and implement the components of a product line. However, the construction and integration of these components continue to be a complex and time-consuming process. This paper introduces Fragment-oriented programming (FragOP), a framework to design and implement software product line domain components, and derive software products. FragOP is based on: (i) domain components, (ii) fragmentations points and (iii) fragments. FragOP was implemented in the VariaMos tool and using it we created a clothing stores software product line. We derived five different products, integrating automatically thousands of lines of code. On average, only three lines of code were manually modified; which provided preliminary evidence that using FragOP reduces manual intervention when integrating domain components.

Keywords : software product lines; fragment-oriented programming; component development; component composition.

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