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Towards feature-driven planning of product-line evolution

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Goetz Botterweck,

Andreas Pleuss,

Andreas Polzer,

Stefan KowalewskiAuthors Info & Claims

FOSD '09: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development

Pages 109 - 116

https://doi.org/10.1145/1629716.1629737

Published: 06 October 2009 Publication History

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Industries that successfully apply product line approaches often operate in markets that are well established and have a strategic perspective. Consequently, such organizations have a tendency towards long-term planning of products and product lines. Although there are numerous approaches for efficient product line engineering, there is surprisingly little support for a long-term, strategic perspective and an evolution of product lines. To address these challenges, we aim to integrate evolution into model-driven product line engineering. In particular, we explore how feature models can be applied to describe the evolution of product lines. The paper contributes (i) concepts for describing the evolution of product lines with feature models, (ii) a corresponding framework, which puts this into a bigger context and (iii) three scenarios that show how this framework can be applied. The concepts are motivated with examples from automotive software engineering and embedded systems, which are industries with a strong affinity to product lines, where long term planning of the product portfolio are common strategies.

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Reviewer: Michael G. Murphy

In the interest of bringing a strategic perspective to the evolution of software product lines, Botterweck et al. "argue that feature models seem to be a promising tool to specify, manage, and analyze product line evolution more systematically and on an appropriate level of abstraction." The approach and its framework are illustrated with examples from automotive applications. The authors introduce EvoFM, "a feature model for evolution planning," and EvoSPL, "a framework for the evolution of product lines." EvoFM was designed to describe "the addition or deletion of features," structural changes, and changes in feature relationships. Also, EvoFM supports partial decisions and incomplete constraints, and assesses the resulting consequences of changes. EvoSPL defines models involved in the evolution process as a way to provide context for EvoFM. Section 5 presents three scenarios for using the framework: Section 5.1, "Reactive Derivation of EvoFM," describes the derivation of EvoFM from product line evolution, based on an existing sequence of feature models; Section 5.2, "Proactive Planning of Evolution," demonstrates the creation of an EvoFM from high-level evolution requirements; and Section 5.3, "Analysis with EvoFM," analyzes planned evolution steps from an existing EvoFM. This well-written and organized paper includes nine figures and a table that illustrate the concepts. It is appropriate for readers who are interested in the strategic use of feature models and the evolution of software product lines. Online Computing Reviews Service

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FOSD '09: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development

October 2009

127 pages

ISBN:9781605585673

DOI:10.1145/1629716

Editors:
Sven Apel
University of Passau, DE
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William R. Cook
University of Texas at Austin
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Krzysztof Czarnecki
University of Waterloo, CA
,
Christian Kastner
University of Magdeburg, DE
,
Neil Loughran
SINTEF, NO
,
Oscar Nierstrasz
University of Berne, CH

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