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Modeling Features at Runtime

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A feature represents a functional requirement fulfilled by a system. Since many maintenance tasks are expressed in terms of features, it is important to establish the correspondence between a feature and its implementation in source code. Traditional approaches to establish this correspondence exercise features to generate a trace of runtime events, which is then processed by post-mortem analysis. These approaches typically generate large amounts of data to analyze. Due to their static nature, these approaches do not support incremental and interactive analysis of features. We propose a radically different approach called live feature analysis, which provides a model at runtime of features. Our approach analyzes features on a running system and also makes it possible to grow feature representations by exercising different scenarios of the same feature, and identifies execution elements even to the sub-method level. We describe how live feature analysis is implemented effectively by annotating structural representations of code based on abstract syntax trees. We illustrate our live analysis with a case study where we achieve a more complete feature representation by exercising and merging variants of feature behavior and demonstrate the efficiency or our technique with benchmarks.
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inria-00531045 , version 1 (01-11-2010)
inria-00531045 , version 2 (15-01-2011)

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Marcus Denker, Jorge Ressia, Orla Greevy, Oscar Nierstrasz. Modeling Features at Runtime. MODELS 2010, Oct 2010, Oslo, Norway. pp.138-152, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-16129-2_11⟩. ⟨inria-00531045v1⟩
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