Dynamic Software Reconfiguration in Software Product Families

Gomaa, Hassan; Hussein, Mohamed

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-24667-1_33

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“…Thus, architectural pattern have been proposed to facilitate runtime variability [1,88]. Gomma et al [22] propose a process for developing a component-based DSPL, where the architecture is built using reusable architectural patterns (such as master/slave, client/server), and for each of these architectural patterns, a speci¯c recon¯g-uration pattern is de¯ned. Modeled with state and scenario-based models, these recon¯guration patterns provide a safe mechanism for recon¯guration.…”

Section: Executionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Software Product Line Engineering: A Reference Framework

Bashari

Bagheri

2017

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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Runtime adaptive systems are able to dynamically transform their internal structure, and hence their behavior, in response to internal or external changes. Such transformations provide the basis for new functionalities or improvements of the non-functional properties that match operational requirements and standards. Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) has introduced several models and mechanisms for variability modeling and management. Dynamic software product lines (DSPL) engineering exploits the knowledge acquired in SPLE to develop systems that can be context-aware, post-deployment recon¯gurable, or runtime adaptive. This paper focuses on DSPL engineering approaches for developing runtime adaptive systems and proposes a framework for classifying and comparing these approaches from two distinct perspectives: adaptation properties and adaptation realization. These two perspectives are linked together by a series of guidelines that help to select a suitable adaptation realization approach based on desired adaptation types.

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Section: Executionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Software Product Line Engineering: A Reference Framework

Bashari

Bagheri

2017

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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“…Because the development of runtime reconfigurable assets is still innovative and not fully investigated in the SPL area (Gomaa and Hussein, 2004;Lee and Kang, 2006;Schmid and Kröher, 2009), there is an important need to support the dynamic properties of systems and post-deployment capabilities as a new promising research and development area using DSPL models.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An overview of Dynamic Software Product Line architectures and techniques: Observations from research and industry

Capilla

Bosch

Trinidad

et al. 2014

Journal of Systems and Software

146

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a b s t r a c tOver the last two decades, software product lines have been used successfully in industry for building families of systems of related products, maximizing reuse, and exploiting their variable and configurable options. In a changing world, modern software demands more and more adaptive features, many of them performed dynamically, and the requirements on the software architecture to support adaptation capabilities of systems are increasing in importance. Today, many embedded system families and application domains such as ecosystems, service-based applications, and self-adaptive systems demand runtime capabilities for flexible adaptation, reconfiguration, and post-deployment activities. However, as traditional software product line architectures fail to provide mechanisms for runtime adaptation and behavior of products, there is a shift toward designing more dynamic software architectures and building more adaptable software able to handle autonomous decision-making, according to varying conditions. Recent development approaches such as Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPLs) attempt to face the challenges of the dynamic conditions of such systems but the state of these solution architectures is still immature. In order to provide a more comprehensive treatment of DSPL models and their solution architectures, in this research work we provide an overview of the state of the art and current techniques that, partially, attempt to face the many challenges of runtime variability mechanisms in the context of Dynamic Software Product Lines. We also provide an integrated view of the challenges and solutions that are necessary to support runtime variability mechanisms in DSPL models and software architectures.

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“…Although traditionally implemented in a static setting, SPLs are also used to facilitate dynamic reconfiguration [8,14,10].…”

Section: Run-time Adaptability and Splsmentioning

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Using reified contextual information for safe run-time adaptation of software product lines

Sunkle

Pukall

2010

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution

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Software product lines (SPLs) is a paradigm to implement software products based on features. Contemporary SPL implementation techniques provide support for compile-time composition of features. Many approaches have been suggested for run-time adaptation of product lines which do not consider safe composition properties. This paper presents FeatureJ which enables safe compile-time and run-time composition of multiple product lines. We identify four compilation techniques necessary to achieve safe run-time adaptation of product lines in FeatureJ: (a) type checking of feature modules, (b) availability of contextual information at runtime, (c) resolving class-loading issues for multiple updated variants, and (d) an application container for executing and updating multiple variants. Accordingly, we show how an existing approach can be integrated with FeatureJ to support safe run-time adaptation.

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Dynamic Software Reconfiguration in Software Product Families

Cited by 40 publications

References 8 publications

Dynamic Software Product Line Engineering: A Reference Framework

Dynamic Software Product Line Engineering: A Reference Framework

An overview of Dynamic Software Product Line architectures and techniques: Observations from research and industry

Using reified contextual information for safe run-time adaptation of software product lines

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