This week, on Thursday 21st, we start off with the second seminar of the calendar, which is called “UVLHub and Open Science” and led by our colleague and professor David Romero.
Open Science is a current trend that allows open access to scientific results, but how does that translate into practice? In the field of software product lines, feature models are crucial for managing variabilities and similarities in product development, facilitating tasks such as product configuration and testing. Despite their importance, access to these models is restricted, as many are in private repositories or discontinued projects. To overcome these limitations, David Romero’s doctoral thesis introduces the Universal Variability Language (UVL), which aims to standardize how these models are serialized, regardless of the tools used. However, current solutions for sharing models do not follow the principles of Open Science.
This is where UVLHub comes into play, providing a platform that improves accessibility, management, and storage of feature models in UVL format, linking with Zenodo to ensure availability and adherence to Open Science. UVLHub is a central part of David Romero’s thesis, and in this seminar, we will address the advantages of using a solution based on the principles of Open Science.