by Deepak Dhungana, Thomas Neumayer, Paul Grünbacher, Rick Rabiser
Abstract:
Evolution is a permanent challenge in product line engineering. Reusable assets such as software components or documents evolve continuously due to new customer requirements or technology changes. This leads to modifications or extensions of the product line's variability models describing the reference architecture. Due to the large size of product lines, single stakeholders or teams can only maintain a small part of a system which poses additional challenges for evolution. This paper presents a tool-supported approach for building and maintaining variability models of large-scale product lines. We structure variability models into multiple model fragments of manageable size that can be created and maintained by individual teams. Model fragments can be merged semi- automatically into a variability model. We illustrate the approach with examples from ongoing industry collaboration.
Reference:
Supporting the Evolution of Product Line Architectures with Variability Model Fragments (Deepak Dhungana, Thomas Neumayer, Paul Grünbacher, Rick Rabiser), In Proceedings 7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008), February 18-22, Vancouver, BC, Canada, IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
Bibtex Entry:
@Conference{Dhungana2008,
author = {Deepak Dhungana and Thomas Neumayer and Paul Grünbacher and Rick
Rabiser},
title = {Supporting the Evolution of Product Line Architectures with Variability
Model Fragments},
booktitle = {Proceedings 7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
(WICSA 2008), February 18-22, Vancouver, BC, Canada},
year = {2008},
pages = {327-330},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
abstract = {Evolution is a permanent challenge in product line engineering. Reusable
assets such as software components or documents evolve continuously
due to new customer requirements or technology changes. This leads
to modifications or extensions of the product line's variability
models describing the reference architecture. Due to the large size
of product lines, single stakeholders or teams can only maintain
a small part of a system which poses additional challenges for evolution.
This paper presents a tool-supported approach for building and maintaining
variability models of large-scale product lines. We structure variability
models into multiple model fragments of manageable size that can
be created and maintained by individual teams. Model fragments can
be merged semi- automatically into a variability model. We illustrate
the approach with examples from ongoing industry collaboration.},
doi = {10.1109/WICSA.2008.23},
keywords = {CD Lab ASE}
}