Title
Issues in mapping change-based product line architectures to configuration management systems
Abstract
Most software product lines are first specified as an architecture, a high-level description of what the overall family system structure is to be like and from which individual product architectures can be generated. This structure, however, must be mapped onto implementation code stored in a Software Configuration Management system for it to be useful beyond the definitional phase of product line development. Various solutions have been developed to date, but the recent emergence of change-based approaches to product line architecture description challenges these existing solutions. In this paper, we characterize those challenges, and present an alternative solution that relies on a mapping to a change-based Software Configuration Management system. We motivate this choice, discuss why it is more appropriate, and carefully lay out its strengths and weaknesses relative to the existing state of the art.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
SPLC
existing state,software configuration management system,change-based software configuration management,product line architecture description,configuration management system,change-based product line architecture,change-based approach,overall family system structure,product line development,individual product architecture,existing solution,software product line,configuration management
Field
DocType
Citations 
Product engineering,Architecture,Change management (engineering),Systems engineering,Software configuration management,Software architecture description,Computer science,Software,Configuration management,Configuration item
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
21
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolás López1153.21
Rubby Casallas222526.65
André van der Hoek32139151.38