Stakeholders in Software-System Family Architectures

Dolan, Tom; Weterings, Ruud; Wortmann, J. C.

doi:10.1007/3-540-68383-6_26

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“…This strategy suggests following the structure of the organization when creating product line models. Different stakeholders are interested in different concerns of a product line (Dolan et al, 1998). In many organizations, architectural knowledge is distributed across different stakeholders independent of their roles and responsibilities in the development process.…”

Section: Following the Organizational Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Structuring the modeling space and supporting evolution in software product line engineering

Dhungana

Grünbacher

Rabiser

et al. 2010

Journal of Systems and Software

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a b s t r a c tThe scale and complexity of product lines means that it is practically infeasible to develop a single model of the entire system, regardless of the languages or notations used. The dynamic nature of real-world systems means that product line models need to evolve continuously to meet new customer requirements and to reflect changes of product line artifacts. To address these challenges, product line engineers need to apply different strategies for structuring the modeling space to ease the creation and maintenance of models. This paper presents an approach that aims at reducing the maintenance effort by organizing product lines as a set of interrelated model fragments defining the variability of particular parts of the system. We provide support to semi-automatically merge fragments into complete product line models. We also provide support to automatically detect inconsistencies between product line artifacts and the models representing these artifacts after changes. Furthermore, our approach supports the co-evolution of models and their respective meta-models. We discuss strategies for structuring the modeling space and show the usefulness of our approach using real-world examples from our ongoing industry collaboration.

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Section: Following the Organizational Structurementioning

confidence: 99%