Software Product Line Engineering via Software Transplantation

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@Article{Souza:TOSEM,

• author = "Leandro {Oliveira de Souza} and Eduardo {Santana de Almeida} and Paulo Anselmo {da Mota Silveira Neto} and Earl T. Barr and Justyna Petke",
• title = "Software Product Line Engineering via Software Transplantation",
• journal = "ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodologies",
• year = "2025",
• volume = "34",
• number = "2",
• pages = "Article No: 31",
• month = feb,
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Genetic Improvement, software engineering, SBSE, Software Product Lines, SPL, SPLE, Software Transplantation, Foundry, ProdScapel, feature organs, donors, software host, application engineering stage, evolve graphs, multiple organ transplantation, multiple files, clone detection, ice box test suite Kilo, CFLOW, VI, refreshing SPL symbiotically",
• ISSN = "1049-331X",
• URL = "http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Petke/papers/Souza_2024_TOSEM.pdf",
• URL = "https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196236/1/Souza_2024_TOSEM.pdf",
• URL = "https://www.human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/humie_entry_foundry_0.pdf",
• URL = "https://www.human-competitive.org/sites/default/files/humie_entry_foundry_0.txt",
• DOI = "doi:10.1145/3695987",
• code_url = "https://autotransplantation-spl.github.io/foundry.github.io/",
• video_url = "https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Petke+Video/1_95d3tabw",
• size = "27 pages",
• abstract = "Software Product Lines (SPLs) improve time-to-market, enhance software quality, and reduce maintenance costs. Current SPL re-engineering practices are largely manual and require domain knowledge. Thus, adopting and, to a lesser extent, maintaining SPLs are expensive tasks, preventing many companies from enjoying their benefits. To address these challenges, we introduce Foundry, an approach using software transplantation to reduce the manual effort of SPL adoption and maintenance. Foundry enables integrating features across different codebases, even code bases that are unaware that they are contributing features to a software product line. Each product produced by Foundry is pure code, without variability annotation, unlike feature flags, which eases variability management and reduces code bloat.

  We realise Foundry in prodScalpel, a tool that transplants multiple organs (i.e., a set of interesting features) from donor systems into an emergent product line for codebases written in C. Given tests and light weight annotations identifying features and implantation points, prodScalpel automates feature extraction and integration. To evaluate its effectiveness, our evaluation compares feature transplantation using prodScalpel to the current state of practice: on our dataset, prodScalpel use speeds up feature migration by an average of 4.8 times when compared to current practice",

• notes = "2025 HUMIES finalist.

  https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/Petke+Video/1_95d3tabw contains the spoken text.

  Better than 20 humans each of whome has at least 10 years experience

  Replaces \cite{souza2023software}",

}

Genetic Programming entries for Leandro Oliveira de Souza Eduardo Santana de Almeida Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto Earl Barr Justyna Petke

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