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Architectural bad smells in software product lines: an exploratory study

Authors:

Hugo Sica de Andrade , Eduardo Santana de Almeida , Ivica Crnkovic

Research group:

Industrial Software Engineering

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

11th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture

Publisher:

ACM - The Association for Computing Machinery

DOI:

10.1145/2578128.2578237 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2578128.2578237

Abstract

The Software Product Lines (SPL) paradigm has arisen for taking advantage of existing common aspects between different products, while also considering product-specific features. The architecture of a SPL comprises a model that will result in product architectures, and may include solutions leading to bad (architectural) design. One way to assess such design decisions is through the identification of architectural bad smells, which are properties that prejudice the overall software quality, but are not necessarily faulty or errant. In this paper, we conduct an exploratory study that aims at characterizing bad smells in the context of product line architectures. We analyzed an open source SPL project and extracted its architecture to investigate the occurrence or absence of four smells initially studied in single systems. In addition, we propose a smell specific to the SPL context and discuss possible causes and implications of having those smells in the architecture of a product line. The results indicate that the granularity of the SPL features may influence on the occurrence of smells.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Sica de Andrade3973,
author = {Hugo Sica de Andrade and Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Ivica Crnkovic},
title = {Architectural bad smells in software product lines: an exploratory study},
editor = {IEEE},
month = {April},
year = {2014},
booktitle = {11th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture},
publisher = {ACM - The Association for Computing Machinery},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/3973-}
}