Variability Management in Aspect-Oriented Architecture Description Languages: An Integrated Approach

Authors:
Eiji Adachi;Thaís Batista;Uirá Kulesza;Ana Luisa Medeiros;Christina Chavez;Alessandro Garcia
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Venue:
SBES '09 Proceedings of the 2009 XXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper we propose an integrated approach for managing variabilities in architectural specifications of software product lines. Our approach combines an aspect-oriented architectural description language for product lines, PL-AspectualACME, with a variability modeling language, VML4Arch. PL-AspectualACME, also proposed in this paper, is used to specify the overall architectural description consisting of the modular representation of architecture commonalities and variabilities. VML4Arch is used to automatically derive product-specific architecture descriptions by specifying features dependencies and the variabilities that must be included in the products. We illustrate the application of our approach by using a software product line from the mobile domain.