An Environment for Managing Evolving Product Line Architectures
Abstract
The use of product lines is recognized as beneficial in promoting and structuring both component and architecture reuse throughout an organization. While the business practices of using product lines are well-understood and representations for specifying and capturing the underlying architecture of a product line are coming of age, support environments for managing the evolution of a product line architecture are still lacking. In this paper, the authors present Menage, an environment specifically designed to alleviate this problem. The key features of Menage are its support for the following: (1) specifying variation points in a product line architecture as optional and/or variant elements, (2) tracking the evolution of a product line architecture and its constituent elements through explicit versioning techniques, and (3) selecting one or more product architectures out of an overall product line architecture by applying user-specified criteria. In this paper, they introduce the approach underlying Menage, discuss its detailed functionality, and demonstrate its use with a product line architecture for entertainment systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA441134
Entities
People
- Akash Garg
- Andre Van Der Hoek
- Christopher Van Der Westhuizen
- Matt Critchlow
- Ping Chen
Organizations
- University of California, Irvine