Supporting Runtime System Adaptation through Product Line Engineering and Plug-in Techniques

Wolfinger, Reinhard; Reiter, Stephan; Dhungana, Deepak; GrÃ¼nbacher, Paul; PrÃ¤hofer, Herbert

doi:10.1109/ICCBSS.2008.30

Supporting Runtime System Adaptation through Product Line Engineering and Plug-in Techniques

by Reinhard Wolfinger, Stephan Reiter, Deepak Dhungana, Paul GrÃ¼nbacher, Herbert PrÃ¤hofer

Abstract:

Product line engineering and plug-in techniques pursue different but complementary goals. Software product line engineering strives for modeling the variability of software systems on different levels of abstraction, whereas plug-in systems support software extensibility, customizability, and evolution. We present an approach demonstrating the benefits of integrating those two areas and discuss the integration of a plug-in platform for enterprise software with an existing product line engineering tool suite. The plug-in platform provides extensibility as well as runtime reconfiguration and adaptation mechanisms on the .NET platform. Automatic runtime adaptations are attained by using the knowledge documented in variability models. We discuss several usage scenarios developed in cooperation with our industry partner illustrating the need of our approach in the enterprise software domain. Finally, we validate the approach on a commercial ERP system of our industry partner.

Reference:

Reinhard Wolfinger, Stephan Reiter, Deepak Dhungana, Paul GrÃ¼nbacher, Herbert PrÃ¤hofer, "Supporting Runtime System Adaptation through Product Line Engineering and Plug-in Techniques", IEEE Computer Society, pp. 21-30, 2008.

Bibtex Entry:

@Conference{Wolfinger2008,
  Title                    = {Supporting Runtime System Adaptation through Product Line Engineering and Plug-in Techniques},
  Author                   = {Reinhard Wolfinger and Stephan Reiter and Deepak Dhungana and Paul GrÃ¼nbacher and Herbert PrÃ¤hofer},
  Booktitle                = {Proceedings 7th Int'l Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2008), February 25-29, Madrid, Spain},
  Year                     = {2008},
  Pages                    = {21-30},
  Publisher                = {IEEE Computer Society},

  Abstract                 = {Product line engineering and plug-in techniques pursue different but complementary goals. Software product line engineering strives for modeling the variability of software systems on different levels of abstraction, whereas plug-in systems support software extensibility, customizability, and evolution. We present an approach demonstrating the benefits of integrating those two areas and discuss the integration of a plug-in platform for enterprise software with an existing product line engineering tool suite. The plug-in platform provides extensibility as well as runtime reconfiguration and adaptation mechanisms on the .NET platform. Automatic runtime adaptations are attained by using the knowledge documented in variability models. We discuss several usage scenarios developed in cooperation with our industry partner illustrating the need of our approach in the enterprise software domain. Finally, we validate the approach on a commercial ERP system of our industry partner.},
  Doi                      = {10.1109/ICCBSS.2008.30},
  Keywords                 = {CD Lab ASE}
}