Browsing by Subject "Architecture conformance analysis"

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Architecture conformance analysis approach within the context of multiple product line engineering
(IEEE, 2014-04) Tekinerdoğan, Bedir; Çilden, E.; Erdoğan, Ö. Ö.; Aktuğ, O.
One of the important concerns in software product line engineering is the conformance of the application architecture to the product line architecture. Consistency with the product line architecture is important to ensure that the business rules and constraints that are defined for the entire product family are not violated. Usually, the conformance checking to the product line architecture is a manual and tedious process. A popular approach for ensuring architecture conformance is reflexion modeling which has been primarily used to check the consistency between the architecture and the code. In this paper we present an approach for product line conformance analysis based on reflexion modeling. We consider conformance analysis in product line engineering and extend our discussion to multiple product line engineering. Our study shows several important challenges regarding reflexion modeling within the context of product line engineering. © 2014 IEEE.
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Architecture conformance analysis in software product line engineering using reflexion modeling
(2015-12) Özdemir, Onur
Software product line engineering (SPLE) aims to provide pro-active, pre-planned reuse at a large granularity (domain and product level) to develop applications from a core asset base. By investing upfront in preparing the reusable assets, it is expected to develop products with lower cost, get them to the market faster and produce with higher quality. In alignment with these goals di erent SPLE processes have been proposed that usually de ne the SPLE process using the two lifecycles of domain engineering and application engineering. In domain engineering a reusable platform and product line architecture is developed. In application engineering the results of the domain engineering process are used to develop the product members. One of the most important core assets in SPLE is the software architecture. Hereby we can distinguish between the product line architecture and application architecture. The product line architecture is developed in the domain engineering process and represents the reference architecture for the family of products. The application architecture represents the architecture for a single product and is developed by reusing the product line architecture. It is important that the application architectures remain consistent with the product line architecture to ensure global consistency. However, due to evolution of the product line architecture and/or the application architecture inconsistencies might arise leading to an architecture drift. In the literature several architecture conformance analysis approaches have been proposed but these have primarily focused on checking the inconsistencies between the architecture and code. Architecture conformance analysis within the scope of SPLE has not got much attention. In this thesis we rst present the results of our tertiary systematic literature review to systematic reviews on software product line testing. Subsequently, we propose a systematic architecture conformance analysis approach for detecting inconsistencies between product line architecture and application architecture. For supporting the approach we adopt the notion of re exion modeling in which architecture views of product line architecture are compared to the architecture views of the application architecture. For illustrating our approach we use the Views and Beyond approach together with a running case study. Furthermore, we present the provided tool support for the presented approach. Our evaluation shows that the approach and the corresponding tool are e ective in identifying the inconsistencies between product line architectures and application architectures.