Bachelor Thesis
[Pages:56]University of Marburg
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Bachelor Thesis
Variability-Aware Interpretation
Author:
Jonas Pusch
October 11, 2012
Advisors:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Ostermann
University of Marburg Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Prof. Dr. Christian Ka?stner
Carnegie Mellon University Institute of Software Research
Sebastian Erdweg, M.Sc.
University of Marburg Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Pusch, Jonas: Variability-Aware Interpretation Bachelor thesis, University of Marburg, 2012.
CONTENTS
I
Contents
List of Figures
III
List of Listings
IV
List of Abbreviations
V
1 Introduction
1
1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Variability in Programs
5
2.1 Software Product Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Variability in Product Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3 Testing Product Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.4 Variability-Aware Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.4.1 Abstract syntax trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.4.2 Variability representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.5 TypeChef Variability-Aware Parser Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3 Variability-Aware Interpreter
15
3.1 Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2 Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3 Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4 Evaluation
31
4.1 Method Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.2 Comparing Runtimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.3 Subject Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
II
CONTENTS
4.3.1 Benchmarking specific cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.3.2 Benchmarking generated product lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 4.4 Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.5 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.5.1 Single cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.5.2 Generated product lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.6 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4.6.1 Threats to validity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5 Future Work
41
6 Related work
42
7 Conclusion
43
LIST OF FIGURES
III
List of Figures
2.1 Product-line development process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Time/cost-effectiveness of different development approaches. . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Variability-aware analysis in comparison to brute-force analysis. . . . . . 10 2.4 Exemplary code fragment with its corresponding AST. . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.5 Variable code fragment and the corresponding AST with variability. . . . 11 2.6 UML model of conditional classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1 Architecture of the variability-aware interpreter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.2 Storing conditional values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.3 Variability propagation in if statements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 3.4 Variability propagation in while loops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.5 Variability propagation in blocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.6 Variability affecting assertions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.7 Partial trace of program execution for two specific variants and in
variability-aware fashion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.8 While language syntax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.9 Exemplary mapping over conditional structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.1 Generating all possible program variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.2 Hardware setup of the benchmark system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 4.3 Results for early joining benchmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 4.4 Results for late splitting benchmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.5 Boxplot of runtimes for generated product lines benchmark. Some outliers
omitted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 4.6 Variability-aware interpretation speedup in relation to the number of vari-
ants for generated product lines benchmark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
IV
List of Listings
2.1 Exemplary ifdef statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1 Code example for early joining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.2 Code example for late splitting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3.3 Language constructs of a variability-enriched While language in Scala. . 23 3.4 Parsing while- and block statements with the TypeChef Parser Framework 24 3.5 Method for processing statements in the variability-aware interpreter. . . 26 3.6 Value representation in the variability-aware interpreter. . . . . . . . . . 26 3.7 Method for evaluating expressions in the variability-aware interpreter. . . 28 3.8 Implementation of the variability-aware store. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3.9 Execution of statements in the plain interpreter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.1 Measuring wall-clock time of interpreter execution. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.2 Code fragment used for measuring the effect of early joining. . . . . . . . 33 4.3 Code fragment used for measuring the effect of late splitting. . . . . . . . 34 5.1 Object orientation for the variability-aware interpreter. . . . . . . . . . . 41
V
List of Abbreviations
SPL AST AOP FOP
software product line abstract syntax tree aspect-oriented programming feature-oriented programming
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