Variant-preserving refactorings for migrating cloned products to a product line

• Published in: 2017 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) pp. 316 - 326
• Main Authors: Fenske, Wolfram, Meinicke, Jens, Schulze, Sandro, Schulze, Steffen, Saake, Gunter
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: IEEE 01.02.2017
• Subjects: Cloning; Computer bugs; Feature extraction; Maintenance engineering; Software; Synchronization; Systematics

A common and simple way to create custom product variants is to copy and adapt existing software (a. k. a. the clone-and-own approach). Clone-and-own promises low initial costs for creating a new variant as existing code is easily reused. However, clone-and-own also comes with major drawbacks for ma...