Title
Weaving Variability into Domain Metamodels
Abstract
Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs) describe the concepts of a particular domain and their relationships, in a metamodel. From a given DSML, it is possible to describe a wide range of different models. These models often share a common base and vary on some parts. Current approaches tend to distinguish the variability language from the DSMLs themselves, implying greater learning curve for DSMLs stakeholders and a significant overhead in product line engineering of DSMLs. We propose to consider variability as an independent aspect to be woven into the DSML to introduce variability capabilities. In particular we detail how variability is woven and how to perform product line derivation. We validate our approach through the weaving of variability into two very different metamodels: Ecore and SmartAdapter, our Aspect-Oriented modeling weaver, thus adding flexibility in the weaving process itself. These results emphasize how new abilities of the language can be provided by this means.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04425-0_56
MoDELS
Keywords
Field
DocType
variability capability,product line derivation,different model,particular domain,domain-specific modeling languages,different metamodels,aspect-oriented modeling weaver,product line engineering,variability language,weaving variability,domain metamodels,dsmls stakeholders,learning curve
Domain-specific language,Weaving,Programming language,Domain engineering,Systems engineering,Computer science,Modeling language,Product line,Software product line,Metamodeling
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5795
0302-9743
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.34
13
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brice Morin166743.51
Gilles Perrouin272937.37
Philippe Lahire353827.92
Olivier Barais472461.99
Gilles Vanwormhoudt510815.60
Jean-Marc Jézéquel63050219.89