150209 Msc

MSc defense Thomas Schmorleiz

Metadata

  • Date: 9 Feb 2015 (Monday)
  • Time: 15.00 (st!)
  • Room: B 013
  • Presenter: Thomas Schmorleiz
  • Supervisor: Ralf Lämmel
  • 2nd reviewer: Martin Leinberger

Title

An Annotation-centric Approach to Similarity Management

Abstract

Software systems are often developed as a set of variants to meet diverse requirements. Two common approaches to this are ”clone-and-owning” and software product lines. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages. In previous work, we and collaborators proposed an idea which combines both approaches to manage variants, similarities, and cloning by using a virtual platform and cloning-related operators. In this thesis, we present an approach for aggregating essential metadata to enable a prop- agate operator, which implements a form of change propagation. For this we have developed a system to annotate code similarities which were extracted throughout the history of a software repository. The annotations express similarity maintenance tasks, which can then either be executed automatically by propagate or have to be performed manually by the user. In this work we outline the automated metadata extraction process and the system for annotating similarities; we explain how the implemented system can be integrated into the workflow of an existing version control system (Git); and, finally, we present a case study using the 101haskell corpus of variants.