Transformational Variability Modeling Approach to Configurable Business System Application

Ndjodo, Marcel Fouda; Ngoumou, Amougou

doi:10.5772/37776

Cited by 2 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 18 publications

(21 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The objective of this article was to reinforce the theoretical foundation of FORM/BCS, laid down in [2,16,17], through the demonstration of the consistency of its processes. Since the global coherence of the whole FORM/BCS engineering process consisted of the horizontal engineering process (or the construction process) and the vertical engineering process (or the refinement process) has been established through a theorem proved to that effect, our next field of research is the development of a tool supporting the method.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In [2], the horizontal engineering process, which is the core process of FORM/BCS, has been formalized using a set of total maps, called constructors and in [16,17], the vertical engineering process of FORM/BCS whose purpose is to generate new systems utilizing the assets developed by horizontal engineering, has been formalized using a set of total maps, called refiners. This paper shows that these two sets of total maps are in fact sets of rules of rewriting sub-systems of a general rewriting system which gives the operational semantics of the engineering process (horizontal process + vertical process) of FORM/BCS.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

A Rewriting System Based Operational Semantics for the Feature Oriented Reuse Method

Ngoumou¹,

Ndjodo²

2013

IJSEIA

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recently, an extension of the Feature Oriented Reuse Method (FORM) with business components semantics (FORM/BCS) has been given. The key idea of FORM/BCS is that, it transforms the assets produced by FORM (feature models, subsystem models, process models and modules) into reusable objects of a domain (business reusable components). Since each individual business reusable component is a constituent of a business architecture (i.e a model of a domain), FORM/BCS is therefore a model-driven design engineering method whose main products are business reusable architectures. The engineering process of FORM/BCS has been formalized using a set of total maps (called constructors and refiners). This paper shows that these maps are in fact rules of a coherent rewriting system which, indeed, defines the operational semantics of FORM/BCS.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Rewriting System Based Operational Semantics for the Feature Oriented Reuse Method

Ngoumou¹,

Ndjodo²

2013

IJSEIA

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Secondly, knowing that the management of software product line evolution is complex and this evolution is due to requirements and needs change, we revisit the specification of feature business components proposed in the FORM/BCS method [12,13,14,15,16,17], as it is the first software asset produced when analyzing the domain, to anticipate evolution very early. In this revision, we enrich features business components with new information such as clashing actions so that we can manage evolution in a flexible way.…”

Section: Research Design Method Instrument and Analysis Techniquementioning

confidence: 99%

“…for example). We have extended Feature models in the Feature Oriented Reuse Method with Business Component Semantics (FORM/BCS) [12,13,14,15,16,17]. Each product in the product line is derived from a selection of a valid combination of features [18] -a process known as product configuration [19,20].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolution in Software Product Lines: Defining and Modelling for Management

Ngoumou¹,

Ndjodo²

2022

J. Engg. Res. & Sci.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Evolution in Software Product Line (SPL) is claimed when there are changes in the requirements, product structure or the technology being used. Currently, many different approaches have been proposed on how to manage SPL assets and some also address how evolution affects these assets. However, the usefulness, effectiveness and applicability of these approaches are unclear, as there is no clear consensus on what an asset is. In this work, we plan to reduce complexity in SPL evolution management. For this goal, the difficulty is defining and modeling SPL evolution and we expect to propose a flexible way to manage it. However, a large variety of artifacts is considered in SPL evolution studies, but feature models are by far the most researched ones. Feature models are widely used to represent SPLs and have been greatly developed in the Feature-Oriented Reuse Method (FORM). Consequently, in our previous works, after observed that this method has a loose structure since it does not provide guidance to reuse and rigorously analyze its assets, we have extended FORM to FORM/BCS (the Feature Oriented Reuse Method with Business Component Semantics) by enveloping its assets among which feature models with business component semantics. The contribution and the novelty of this work is that, by highlighting formally the concept of software asset and revisiting feature business components, to add new information when analyzing a domain, such as clashing actions. conflicts or undesired interactions between existing features in a product line and new features due to evolution of the product line can be manage in a flexible way.

show abstract

Transformational Variability Modeling Approach to Configurable Business System Application

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

A Rewriting System Based Operational Semantics for the Feature Oriented Reuse Method

A Rewriting System Based Operational Semantics for the Feature Oriented Reuse Method

Evolution in Software Product Lines: Defining and Modelling for Management

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About