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In this chapter we present the evaluation of our work. In particular, we investigate and compare maintenance effort when maintaining features with and without Emergent Interfaces. Then, we evaluate the performance of the brute-force analysis when compared to both feature-sensitive analyses we present in this book. Investigating and pointing out the fastest plays an important role on deciding which one we should use in our tool.
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Here, software families and product lines that use preprocessors to implement feature code.
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Based on our experience when analyzing preprocessor-based families and product lines, although this case might happen within a method, this situation does not hold for interprocedural dependencies.
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As we illustrate in this section, we evaluate our feature-sensitive approaches using SOOT. But since the implementation of interprocedural analyses using this framework is not straightforward, we decide to use another framework to implement Emergo.
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Ribeiro, M., Borba, P., Brabrand, C. (2014). Evaluation. In: Emergent Interfaces for Feature Modularization. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11493-4_5
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