Extracting and evolving a software product line from existing web-based systems: an experience report

© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. This paper presents an experience report of extraction and evolution of software product lines (SPLs) from existing web-based systems. We describe the activities to succesfully refactor and evolve an web-based system of management of university rooms and laboratories by promoting the management and modularization of their variabilities. Several lessons learned are derived from that experience, includying the proposal of a method for the extraction and evolution of SPLs, as well as strategies for variability refactoring.