Recovering the product line architecture of the apo-games
Crescêncio Lima, Ivan Machado, Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Christina Chávez · 2018
Software Product Line (SPL) engineering is a paradigm for the development of a family of products based on the systematic reuse of artifacts. Although its increasing adoption, organizations often start with a single system and use ad-hoc techniques such as clone-and-own to create new systems by performing small changes and adaptations to meet customers' needs. However, as the number of clones raises over time, it becomes a hard task to maintain and support all the systems. This scenario happened in the Apo-Games projects and adopting SPL Engineering can address these issues. Product Line Architecture (PLA) is one of the key assets to allow the success of SPL development. In this paper, we apply our approach to recover the PLA of the Apo-Games projects by using the source code of a set of Android and Java clones. We provide a set of information to support the development of the Apo-Games SPL. We identified that the Android and Java projects have similar PLAs.