by Reinhard Wolfinger, Stephan Reiter, Deepak Dhungana, Paul Grünbacher, Herbert Prähofer
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:
Supporting Runtime System Adaptation through Product Line Engineering and Plug-in Techniques (Reinhard Wolfinger, Stephan Reiter, Deepak Dhungana, Paul Grünbacher, Herbert Prähofer), In Proceedings 7th Int'l Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems, ICCBSS 2008), February 25-29, Madrid, Spain, IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
Bibtex Entry:
@Conference{Wolfinger2008,
author = {Reinhard Wolfinger and Stephan Reiter and Deepak Dhungana and Paul
Grünbacher and Herbert Prähofer},
title = {Supporting Runtime System Adaptation through Product Line Engineering
and Plug-in Techniques},
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}
}