A Reusable Software Architecture for Geographic Information Systems Based on Software Product Line Engineering

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“…In traditional software development practices, each flavor was treated as an individual product. Elicitation of requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance for each product leads to high development and maintenance costs [7] [8]. Furthermore, if any potential feature or change across all variants is required, all projects will be updated manually, which is neither scalable nor efficient [8] [9] [5].…”

“…Furthermore, if any potential feature or change across all variants is required, all projects will be updated manually, which is neither scalable nor efficient [8] [9] [5]. For this reason, different strategies are applied in software development to reuse components [7]. One approach to reuse core functionalities across all flavors is to build a library module for core functionalities and use it in all projects as a library component.…”

“…This approach is rarely an economical solution [10]. Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is an emerging technology [7]. SPLE has attracted attention due to its ability to reuse requirements and components [14].…”

“…SPLE has attracted attention due to its ability to reuse requirements and components [14]. A software product line (SPL) is used to build software, families of products, i.e., similar products differentiated by certain characteristics from a common codebase with a set of features to satisfy the targeted market or project requirements [15] [7]. The SPL paradigm empowers companies to produce quality software and to mitigate costs and launch times [7].…”

“…A software product line (SPL) is used to build software, families of products, i.e., similar products differentiated by certain characteristics from a common codebase with a set of features to satisfy the targeted market or project requirements [15] [7]. The SPL paradigm empowers companies to produce quality software and to mitigate costs and launch times [7]. Furthermore, it increases productivity, user-satisfaction, product quality, and development of moral [16] [17].…”