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Architectural reasoning for dynamic software product lines

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SPLC '13 Workshops: Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference co-located workshops

Pages 117 - 124

https://doi.org/10.1145/2499777.2500718

Published: 26 August 2013 Publication History

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Software quality is critical in today's software systems. A challenge is the trade-off situation architects face in the design process. Designers often have two or more alternatives, which must be compared and put into context before a decision is made. The challenge becomes even more complex for dynamic software product lines, where domain designers have to take runtime variations into consideration as well. To address the problem we propose extensions to an architectural reasoning framework with constructs/artifacts to define and model a domain's scope and dynamic variability. The extended reasoning framework encapsulates knowledge to understand and reason about domain quality behavior and self-adaptation as a primary variability mechanism. The framework is demonstrated for a self-configuration property, self-upgradability on an educational product-line.

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Marchezan LRodrigues EAssunção WBernardino MBasso FCarbonell J(2022)Software product line scopingJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2021.111189186:COnline publication date: 1-Apr-2022
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Index Terms

Architectural reasoning for dynamic software product lines
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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