Plastic Partial Components: A solution to support variability in architectural components

Pérez, Jennifer; Díaz, Jessica; Costa-Soria, Cristóbal; Garbajosa, Juan

doi:10.1109/wicsa.2009.5290808

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“…We use íhe exíended 1 It is available on: https://syst.eui.upm.es/FPLA/home feaíure meíamodel definiíion proposed by Czarnecki eí al. [15] [45]). The concepí of PPC is a soluíion ío compleíely supporí íhe iníer-nal variaíion of archiíecíural componenís.…”

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“…Additionally, PPCs reduce dependences and coupling between components and their variants, and enable easy and cheap (un-)weaving of variants. These advantages have been successfully applied to SPLs [45,44,17].…”

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“…The descripíion of feaíures is supporíed by íhe Feature Model [25,15]. The descripíion of PLAs is supporíed by a previous work íhaí presenís íhe Flexible-PLA Model [45] as a soluíion for specifying boíh (i) exíernal variabiliíy of íhe archiíecíure configuraíion and composiíe componenís, and (ii) iníernal variabiliíy of simple componenís. Specifically, in íhis paper we presení a model íhaí supporís íraceabiliíy beíween feaíures and PLA, called Feature-PLA Traceability Model.…”

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A model for tracing variability from features to product-line architectures: a case study in smart grids

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In current software systems with highly volatile requirements, traceability plays a key role to maintain the consistency between requirements and code. Traceability between artifacts involved in the development of Software Product Lines (SPL) is still more critical because it is necessary to guarantee that the selection of variants that realize the different SPL producís meet the requirements. Current SPL traceability mechanisms trace from variability in features to variations in the configuration of product-line architecture (PLA) in terms of adding and removing components. However, it is not always possible to materialize the variable features of a SPL through adding or removing components, since sometimes they are materialized inside components, i.e. in part of their functionality: a class, a service and/or an interface. Additionally, variations that happen inside components may crosscut several components of architecture. These kinds of variations are still challenging and their traceability is not currently well-supported. Therefore, it is not possible to guarantee that those SPL producís with íhese kinds of variaíions meeí íhe requiremenís. This paper presenís a soluíion for íracing variabiliíy from feaíures ío PLA by íaking íhese kinds of variaíions inío accouní. This soluíion is based on models and íraceabiliíy beíween models in order ío auíomaíe SPL configuration by selecíing íhe varianís and realizing íhe producí applicaíion. The FPLA modeling framework supporís íhis soluíion which has been deployed in a software facíory. Validaíion has consisíed in puííing íhe soluíion inío pracíice ío develop a producí line of power meíering managemení applicaíions for Smarí Grids.

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“…Plastic partial components [183] model component variability inside the components by extending partially defined components with variation points and associated variants. Variants can be cross-cutting or non-cross-cutting architectural concerns that are composed with the common component architecture by weaving mechanisms that have to be specified by the component designer.…”

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Software diversity: state of the art and perspectives

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Abstract. Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases of the software development process. Appropriate means and organizational structures are required to deal with the additional complexity introduced by software variability. This introductory article to the special section "Software Diversity -Modeling, Analysis and Evolution" provides an overview of the current state of the art in diverse systems development and discusses challenges and potential solutions. The article covers requirements analysis, design, implementation, verification and validation, maintenance and evolution as well as organizational aspects. It also provides an overview of the articles which are part of this special section and address particular issues of diverse systems development.

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“…The Flexible-PLA Model [4] extends previous approaches for modeling architectural variability [5], [6], [7], [8] not only at the level of the external architecture configuration, but also at the level of internal specification of components. However, a complete support for product-line development requires translating architecture specifications into code.…”

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Model-to-Code Transformation from Product-Line Architecture Models to AspectJ

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Abstract-Software Product Line Engineering has significant advantages in family-based software development. The common and variable structure for all products of a family is defined through a Product-Line Architecture (PLA) that consists of a common set of reusable components and connectors which can be configured to build the different products. The design of PLA requires solutions for capturing such configuration (variability). The Flexible-PLA Model is a solution that supports the specification of external variability of the PLA configuration, as well as internal variability of components. However, a complete support for product-line development requires translating architecture specifications into code. This complex task needs automation to avoid human error. Since Model-Driven Development allows automatic code generation from models, this paper presents a solution to automatically generate AspectJ code from Flexible-PLA modelspreviously configured to derive specific products. This solution is supported by a modeling framework and validated in a software factory.

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Plastic Partial Components: A solution to support variability in architectural components

Cited by 35 publications

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A model for tracing variability from features to product-line architectures: a case study in smart grids

A model for tracing variability from features to product-line architectures: a case study in smart grids

Software diversity: state of the art and perspectives

Model-to-Code Transformation from Product-Line Architecture Models to AspectJ

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