Identifying dead features and their causes in product line models: an ontological approach

Feature Models (FMs) are a notation to represent differences and commonalities between products derived from a product line. However, product line modelers could unintentionally incorporate dead features in FMs. A dead feature is a type of defect, which implies that one or more features are not present in any product of the product line. Some authors have used ontologies in product lines, but they have not exploited ontology reasoning to identify and explain causes for defects in FMs in natural language. In this paper, we propose an ontology that represents FMs in OWL (Web Ontology Language). Then, we use SQWRL (Semantic Query-enhanced Web Rule Language) to identify dead features in a FM and identify and explain certain causes of this defect in natural language. Our preliminary empirical evaluation confirms the benefits of our approach.

• Autores: Giraldo Gómez, Gloria Lucia; Rincón Pérez, Luisa Fernanda; Mazo Peña, Raul Iván
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/71430
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/71430; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/35900/
• Palabra clave: Product lines; feature models; ontologies; dead features: SQWRL
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional