Title
Integrating Variability Management and Software Architecture
Abstract
Effective variability support has become an important attribute of modern software development practices. Organizations show an increasing interest in the development of software applications using software platforms, reusable components, and mass customization. Even though many variability management tools exist, an approach that integrates support for variability management (e.g. features, decisions, variation points, and variants) directly into architecture models is still missing. Making variability concepts an integral part of architecture models has many benefits. Variability management and architecture development can be integrated into one consistent information model and development environment supporting full traceability of architectural artifacts (e.g. requirements, features, components) on all levels of the development lifecycle. In this paper we show how we integrated orthogonal variability modeling and feature modeling into LISA, an approach and toolkit for architecture management and analysis. Variability management is no longer a separate activity but an integral part of the architecture development lifecycle.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WICSA-ECSA.212.42
WICSA) and European Conference Software Architecture
Keywords
Field
DocType
architecture model,variability management,variability concept,integrating variability management,variability management tool,software architecture,architecture development,development environment,integrated orthogonal variability modeling,effective variability support,architecture development lifecycle,integral part,object oriented programming,gears,computer architecture,unified modeling language,domain engineering,software reliability,visualization
Application lifecycle management,Applications architecture,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Computer science,Software architecture description,Reference architecture,Software architecture,Resource-oriented architecture,Enterprise architecture management,Service-oriented modeling
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2809-8
11
0.54
References 
Authors
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iris Groher134127.43
Rainer Weinreich223727.10