VARIES framework to support tool integration in product line engineering
Authors: 
Michael Wagner, Grit Dudeck, Christian Hein, Nikolay Tcholtchev, Christian Gebhardt, Andreas KorffAuthors Info & Claims
Michael Wagner, Grit Dudeck, Christian Hein, Nikolay Tcholtchev, Christian Gebhardt, Andreas KorffAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 117 - 120
Abstract
Even though product line technologies and methods are well established in today's development environments, various challenges still remain. Different ways of handling variability in system development tools have arisen posing an integration challenge to today's tool chains. This issue is further amplified by the variety of integration approaches. The VARIES framework addresses these challenges through technology adaptation, i.e. the utilization of model transformations and traceability support.
References
[1]
Apache Jena. http://jena.apache.org/.
[2]
ARTEMIS-JU. http://www.artemis-ju.eu/home_page.
[3]
Artisan Studio. http://www.atego.com/products/atego-modeler/.
[4]
Berner & Mattner. http://www.berner-mattner.com/en/berner-mattner-home/company/index.html.
[5]
BigLever Software Gears. http://www.biglever.com/solution/product.html.
[6]
CESAR - Cost-efficient methods and processes for safety relevant embedded systems. http://www.cesarproject.eu/.
[7]
CRYSTAL - Critical System Engineering Acceleration. http://www.crystal-artemis.eu/.
[8]
CTE XL. http://www.berner-mattner.com/en/berner-mattner-home/products/cte/index.html.
[9]
CVL Tool. http://www.omgwiki.org/variability/doku.php/doku.php?id=cvl_tool_from_sintef.
[10]
Dassault Systèmes. Enovia. http://www.3ds.com/products-services/enovia/welcome/.
[11]
EMF - Eclipse Modeling Framework. http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/.
[12]
ETH Zürich. XFeature. http://www.pnp-software.com/XFeature/.
[13]
IBM. Rational Jazz. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/jazz/.
[14]
iFEST - industrial Framework for Embedded Systems Tools. http://www.artemis-ifest.eu/.
[15]
Intalio BPMS. http://www.intalio.com/products/bpms/overview/.
[16]
JMS - Java Message Service. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jms/index.html.
[17]
KConfig. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.
[18]
MBAT - Combined Model-based Analysis and Testing of Embedded Systems. https://www.mbat-artemis.eu/home/.
[19]
MERAN. http://www.berner-mattner.com/en/berner-mattner-home/products/meran/index.html.
[20]
MESSINA. http://www.berner-mattner.com/en/berner-mattner-home/products/messina/index.html.
[21]
ModelBus. http://www.modelbus.org/.
[22]
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Requirements Management Specification Version 2.0. http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/RmSpecificationV2.
[23]
Oracle Business Process Management. http://www.oracle.com/de/technologies/bpm/overview/index.html.
[24]
OSLC - Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration. http://open-services.net/.
[25]
PLUM - Product Line Unified Modeller. http://www.esi.es/plum/.
[26]
PTC. PTC Integrity. http://www.mks.com/platform/our-product.
[27]
pure:variants. http://www.pure-systems.com/pure_variants.49.0.html.
[28]
Rational Doors. http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/de/ratidoor.
[29]
Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF). http://www.omg.org/spec/ReqIF/.
[30]
Systems Modeling Language (SysML). http://www.omg.org/spec/SysML/1.3.
[31]
The Design Modeler. http://www.bizzdesign.com/tools/the-decision-modeler/.
[32]
Unified Modeling Language#8482; (UML®). http://www.berner-mattner.com/en/berner-mattner-home/products/messina/index.html.
[33]
VARIES: VARiability In safety-critical Embedded Systems. http://www.varies.eu/. ARTEMIS-2011-1 295397.
[34]
Visio. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/.
[35]
W3C. Linked Data. http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data.
[36]
W3C. RDF - Resource Description Framework. http://www.w3.org/RDF/.
[37]
W3C. SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol. http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/.
[38]
D5.1 Identification of State of the Art & Requirements. http://www.varies.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2013/05/VARIES_D5.1_v03_PU_FINAL.pdf, 2013.
[39]
R. T. Fielding. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. PhD thesis, 2000. AAI9980887.
[40]
Ø. Haugen, A. Wasowski, and K. Czarnecki. Cvl: common variability language. In SPLC, page 277, 2013.
[41]
F. Roos-Frantz, D. Benavides, and A. Ruiz-Cortés. Feature model to orthogonal variability model transformation towards interoperability between tools. In Knowledge Industry Survival Strategy Initiative, KISS workshop @ ASE 2009, Auckland, New Zealand, Nov 2009.
[42]
M. Sinnema, O. D. Graaf, and J. Bosch. Tool support for covamof. In International Workshop on Software Variability Management for Product Derivation --- Towards Tool Support, 2004.
Index Terms
- VARIES framework to support tool integration in product line engineering
Recommendations
Product line tool-chain: variability in critical systems
PLEASE '12: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Product LinE Approaches in Software EngineeringCompetitiveness has thrown industries towards adding more features to existent products increasing their inherent complexity. One of the main challenges is to define mechanisms and tools to control the propagation of the dependencies through the ...
Safety-oriented process line engineering via seamless integration between EPF composer and BVR tool
SPLC '18: Proceedings of the 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2The integration between process engineering and variability management is required for tailoring of safety-oriented processes with variabilities to individual projects in a similar manner to the product lines. Previous studies have not adequately ...
Successful Product Line Engineering: Experiences from the Real World
SPLC '11: Proceedings of the 2011 15th International Software Product Line ConferenceThe tutorial provides practical guidance for project managers and architects facing the "PLE challenge". It demonstrates practices and concrete activities we use to make a product line an economical and technical success
Comments
Information & Contributors
Information
Published In
September 2014
151 pages
ISBN:9781450327398
DOI:10.1145/2647908
- Editors:
- Stefania Gnesi,
- Alessandro Fantechi,
- Maurice H. ter Beek,
- Goetz Botterweck,
- Martin Becker,
- General Chairs:
- Stefania Gnesi,
- Alessandro Fantechi
Copyright © 2014 Owner/Author.
Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.
Sponsors
- University of Florence: University of Florence
- CNR: Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell Informazione
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
New York, NY, United States
Publication History
Published: 15 September 2014
Check for updates
Author Tags
Qualifiers
- Research-article
Conference
SPLC '14
Sponsor:
- University of Florence
- CNR
SPLC '14: 18th International Software Product Lines Conference - Companion Volume for Workshop, Tools and Demo papers
September 15 - 19, 2014
Florence, Italy
Acceptance Rates
Overall Acceptance Rate 167 of 463 submissions, 36%
Contributors
Other Metrics
Bibliometrics & Citations
Bibliometrics
Article Metrics
- 0Total Citations
- 183Total Downloads
- Downloads (Last 12 months)5
- Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1
Reflects downloads up to 24 Dec 2024
Other Metrics
Citations
View Options
Login options
Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.
Sign in