Derivação Semiautomática de Produtos de Software no Contexto da Secretaria de Estado da Agricultura, da Pecuária e da Pesca do RN

Software Product Line. Product Derivation. Product Line Reengineering. Gene- ration of Source Code.

The engineering of Software Product Line (SPL) has the products derivation as one of its areas, which uses the strategy of products implementation from features previously selected. The artifacts developed, can be generated or compound during the step of domain implementation. Despite its importance, the activity of product derivation continues to be costly and error prone, and it is still difficult to automate and have support by means of tools. Furthermore, few papers have been dedicated to the product derivation process and the strategies of applying it in practical context. Thus, there is a lack of empirical reports describing the product derivation in industrial environment, in general. This Master’s dissertation, proposes the systematization of the process of system distribution of cloned web application, through the semiautomatic product derivation of existing softwares, refactoring to SPL. A well as, the use of a support tool to realize the implementation of the instance of the system previously configured, making the software product available and ready to be used in a server. Furthermore, we will realize a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the before and after of the use of the approach defined for the product derivation with and without the support tool, through a case study. Specifying a set well defined systematic activities, which will assist the system analysts and programmers to do the product derivation of the product refactored to a SPL, from a existenting system. Through the use of an approach supported by a tool, it will be possible to manage the product and its features, leaving it ready to be semiautomatic configured product, ready to be derived end deployed. The case study carried out through this work, provides information about of the concepts and actions explored in the literature, such as: product derivation, cloning of the SPL, software reengineering of SPL, refactoring of SPL and source-code generation. IT professionals can use this work as a basis for define, adapt or evaluate theirs own approaches of the product derivation. While researchers can use this work, as a starting point for new industrial reports, showing yours experiences with in product derivation.