Feature-Guided Architecture Development for Embedded System Families

Brown, Tony N.; Bashroush, Rabih; Gillan, Charles J.; Spence, Ivor; Kilpatrick, Peter

doi:10.1109/wicsa.2005.34

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“…While adopting successful concepts from ADLARS, such as the relationship between the feature model [15] and the architectural structure [16], ALI introduces, among other things, a high level of flexibility for interface description. Major concepts behind the ALI ADL are discussed in this section.…”

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confidence: 99%

Towards More Flexible Architecture Description Languages for Industrial Applications

Bashroush

Spence

Kilpatrick

et al. 2006

Software Architecture

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Abstract. Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) have emerged in recent years as a tool for providing high-level descriptions of software systems in terms of their architectural elements and the relationships among them. Most of the current ADLs exhibit limitations which prevent their widespread use in industrial applications. In this paper, we discuss these limitations and introduce ALI, an ADL that has been developed to address such limitations. The ALI language provides a rich and flexible syntax for describing component interfaces, architectural patterns, and meta-information. Multiple graphical architectural views can then be derived from ALI's textual notation.

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Section: Ali Rationalementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards More Flexible Architecture Description Languages for Industrial Applications

Bashroush

Spence

Kilpatrick

et al. 2006

Software Architecture

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“…In these systems variability in the platform features can induce variability in the matching software. The notion of bi-directional feature modeling with separate but interrelated models for software and platform features was first introduced in [9], and is further explored herein. The capture of this information is intended to facilitate the design of platform independent software.…”

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“…In an earlier paper [9] we introduced the concept of bi-directional feature models and described an outline methodology for evolving software architectures from feature models. This approach made significant use of additional information derived from scenarios designed to exercise features in a systematic way.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%