KernelHaven – An Experimentation Workbench for Analyzing Software Product Lines
Systematic exploration of hypotheses is a major part of any empirical research. In software engineering, we often produce unique tools for experiments and evaluate them independently on different data sets. In this paper, we present KernelHaven as an experimentation workbench supporting a significant number of experiments in the domain of static product line analysis and verification. It addresses the need for extracting information from a variety of artifacts in this domain by means of an open plug-in infrastructure. Available plug-ins encapsulate existing tools, which can now be combined eficiently to yield new analyses. As an experimentation workbench, it provides configuration-based definitions of experiments, their documentation, and technical services, like parallelization and caching. Hence, researchers can abstract from technical details and focus on the algorithmic core of their research problem.
KernelHaven supports difierent types of analyses, like correctness checks, metrics, etc., in its specific domain. The concepts presented in this paper can also be transferred to support researchers of other software engineering domains. The infrastructure is available under Apache 2.0: https://github.com/KernelHaven. The plug-ins are available under their individual licenses.
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11:00 30mDemonstration | KernelHaven – An Experimentation Workbench for Analyzing Software Product Lines DEMO - Demonstrations Christian Kröher University of Hildesheim, Sascha El-Sharkawy University of Hildesheim, Klaus Schmid Stiftung University Hildesheim Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
11:30 30mTalk | Elixir: An Automated Repair Tool for Java Programs DEMO - Demonstrations Ripon Saha , Hiroaki Yoshida Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., Mukul Prasad Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Susumu Tokumoto Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kuniharu Takayama , Isao Nanba | ||
12:00 30mTalk | Multi-View Editing of Software Product Lines with PEoPL DEMO - Demonstrations Mukelabai Mukelabai , Benjamin Behringer htw saar, Germany, Moritz Fey , Jochen Palz , Jacob Krüger Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Thorsten Berger Link to publication Pre-print |