Leveraging relational concept analysis for automated feature location in software product lines
Nicolas Hlad, Bérénice Lemoine, Marianne Huchard, Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai · 2021
Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) has been introduced for almost a decade as a suitable method for Feature Location (FL) on a collection of product variants. Even though FCA-based FL techniques allow to locate the core of a feature implementation, they do not propose a solution to trace feature interactions to their implementation. Thus, the extracted traceability links (traces) are too inaccurate, and, in the context of SPL extraction, cannot be used to generate complete products.