Building Families of Software Products for e-Learning Platforms: A Case Study

Author

Sanchez Barreiro, Pablo ; Garcia-Saiz, Diego ; Zorrilla Pantaleon, Marta Elena

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., Stat. & Comput., Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Volume

9

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

May-14

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

71

Abstract

Applications for e-learning platforms must deal with certain variability inherent to their domain. For example, these applications must be adapted to the variations of each teaching-learning process. Thus, they must be changed manually, according to the particular environment in which they will be deployed. This manual adaptation process is costly and error-prone. Our hypothesis is that software product line (SPL) engineering, whose goal is the effective production of similar software systems, can help to alleviate this problem. This paper illustrates this idea by refactoring an e-learning application named E-Learning Web Miner in a SPL. The benefits obtained are highlighted and analyzed.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; data mining; SPL engineering; e-learning Web miner; e-learning application; e-learning platforms; manual adaptation process; refactoring; software product line; software products; software systems; teaching-learning process; Computer architecture; Data mining; Education courses; Electronic learning; HTML; Software development; Software systems; Software product line; data mining; e-learning; refactoring;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Tecnologias del Aprendizaje, IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1932-8540

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/RITA.2014.2317531

Filename

6799220