Category Theory Framework for Variability Models with Non-functional Requirements
2021 (English)In: Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Caise 2021) / [ed] LaRosa, M Sadiq, S Teniente, E, SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG , 2021, Vol. 12751, p. 397-413Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In Software Product Line (SPL) engineering one uses Variability Models (VMs) as input to automated reasoners to generate optimal products according to certain Quality Attributes (QAs). Variability models, however, and more specifically those including numerical features (i.e., NVMs), do not natively support QAs, and consequently, neither do automated reasoners commonly used for variability resolution. However, those satisfiability and optimisation problems have been covered and refined in other relational models such as databases. Category Theory (CT) is an abstract mathematical theory typically used to capture the common aspects of seemingly dissimilar algebraic structures. We propose a unified relational modelling framework subsuming the structured objects of VMs and QAs and their relationships into algebraic categories. This abstraction allows a combination of automated reasoners over different domains to analyse SPLs. The solutions' optimisation can now be natively performed by a combination of automated theorem proving, hashing, balanced-trees and chasing algorithms. We validate this approach by means of the edge computing SPL tool HADAS.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG , 2021. Vol. 12751, p. 397-413
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743
Keywords [en]
Numerical variability model, Feature, Non-functional requirement, Quality attribute, Category theory
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-305416DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79382-1_24ISI: 000716947800024Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85111462241OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-305416DiVA, id: diva2:1615888
Conference
33rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), JUN 28-JUL 02, 2021, ELECTR NETWORK
Note
Part of proceedings: ISBN 978-3-030-79382-1, QC 20230118
2021-12-012021-12-012023-01-18Bibliographically approved