Towards a Language-Independent Approach for Reverse-Engineering of Software Product Lines

Tewfik Ziadi*, Mikal Ziane*, Christopher Henard+, Mike Papadakis+ and Yves Le Traon+

Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Paris, France
+Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Contact: *{firstname.lastname}@lip6.fr, +{firstname.lastname}@uni.lu

Resources regarding the paper:

• About the Software Product Lines used in the case study
• About ExtractorPL

References:

About the Software Product Lines used in the case study

• Browse or download (234.5KB) the Software Product Lines used in the case study
• Browse or download (300.2KB) products examples for the SPLs

About ExtractorPL

• Download (22.5MB) the jar file of ExtractorPL
• Usage:

  	java -jar ExtractorPL.jar dirOfinputProductvariants typeOfSystem nameOfProductLine numberOfProductvariants
  
  	where :
  		* dirOfinputProductvariants:   designates the source directory of product variants
  		* typeOfSystem:   designates the type of source code of paroduct variant : "c" for c-programs, "java" for java programs
  		* nameOfProductLine:   designates a name for the extracted SPL
  		* numberOfProductvariants:   designates the number of the considered product variants
  
  	Example:
  
  	java -jar ExtractorPL.jar Products_Example/GPL_Products_Example/products java reversedGPL 5