Bad Smells in Software Product Lines: A Systematic Review

Author

Vale, Gustavo ; Figueiredo, Eduardo ; Abilio, Ramon ; Costa, Heitor

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

29-30 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

94

Abstract

Software product line (SPL) is a set of software systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. Bad smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in system design. Bad smells in SPL are a relative new topic and need to be explored. This paper performed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to find and classify published work about bad smells in SPLs and their respective refactoring methods. Based on 18 relevant papers found in the SLR, we identified 70 bad smells and 95 refactoring methods related to them. The main contribution of this paper is a catalogue of bad smells and refactoring methods related to SPL.

Keywords

software maintenance; software product lines; bad smells; market segment; refactoring methods; software product lines; software systems; system design; systematic literature review; Bibliographies; Conferences; Context; Data mining; Databases; Software; Systematics; Bad Smells; Refactoring; Software Product Lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS), 2014 Eighth Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Maceio

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBCARS.2014.21

Filename

7012985