Industrializing Software Development: The “Factory Automation” Way

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

Doğru

et al. 2012

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Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is a prominent paradigm for the assembly of a family of products using product line core assets. The modeling of software assets that together form the actual products is critical for achieving the strategic benefits of Software Product Lines (SPLs). We propose a feature-based approach to software asset modeling based on abstractions provided by Domain-Specific Kits (DSKs). This approach involves a software Asset Metamodel (AMM) used to derive Asset Modeling Languages (AMLs) that define reusable software assets in domain-specific terms. The approach also prescribes a roadmap for modeling these software assets in conjunction with the product line reference architecture. Asset capabilities can be modeled using feature diagrams as the external views of the software assets. Internal views can be expressed in terms of Domain-Specific Artifacts (DSAs) with Variability Points (VPs), where the domain-specific artifacts are created using Domain-Specific Kits. This approach produces loosely coupled and highly cohesive software assets that are reusable for multiple product lines. The approach is validated by assessing software asset reuse in two different product lines in the finance domain. We also evaluated the productivity gains in large-scale complex projects, and found that the approach yielded a significant reduction in the total project effort.

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Modeling Product Line Software Assets Using Domain-Specific Kits

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

Doğru

et al. 2012

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“…Proposed modeling activities constitute the domain engineering phase of software product line approach. SFA prescribes three main activities: feature-oriented requirements engineering, SPL reference architecture modeling [12], and software asset modeling [6].…”

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“…The domain design steps of Software Factory Automation (SFA) [6], [7] approach have been employed to set up a "family system" to meet the design challenges introduced by the previous section.…”

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“…SFA proposes a methodical approach to set up software product lines for family of products [6], [7]. Proposed modeling activities constitute the domain engineering phase of software product line approach.…”

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“…DSK abstraction has been introduced within the context of "Software Factory Automation (SFA)" vision [6], [7]. This paper summarizes the research and development conducted within the scope of OC-TOPODA project, which leverages the concept of DSKs and the broader vision of SFA approach to model, design and implement financial gateways family system.…”

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OCTOPODA: Building Financial Gateways Family System Using Domain Specific Kits

Third International Conference on Systems (Icons 2008)

Surav

2008

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Financial institutions have been progressively challenged by being linked to a network of various internaland external systems through different and complex protocols. The way to manage this challenge is exploiting application-specific gateways known as financial gateways. However, the complexities of switch protocols as well as the variety of internal and external systems make the design of financial gateways quite complicated. This paper briefly summarizes the challenges of building family of financial gateway systems and introduces a systematic approach to design and implement them with "Domain Specific Kit" abstraction. This abstraction can separate system design concerns properly, isolate them in discrete building blocks, and finally compose them by means of a structured choreography model. The approach has been implemented within the context of OCTOPODA project and experimented in real life cases. The paper also presents and discusses the results of this experimentation.

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Managing Large Scale Reuse Across Multiple Software Product Lines

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