Software product-line engineering: a family-based software development process
Software product-line engineering: a family-based software development process
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Building systems from commerical components
Building systems from commerical components
Component-based product line engineering with UML
Component-based product line engineering with UML
The nesC language: A holistic approach to networked embedded systems
PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
On the Notion of Variability in Software Product Lines
WICSA '01 Proceedings of the Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
EDOC '04 Proceedings of the Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, Eighth IEEE International
Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques
Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques
Integrating COTS Software into Systems through Instrumentation and Reasoning
Automated Software Engineering
SPLC '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Software Product Line Conference
Where Is the Proof? - A Review of Experiences from Applying MDE in Industry
ECMDA-FA '08 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications
SPLC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International Software Product Line Conference
Supplier independent feature modelling
Proceedings of the 13th International Software Product Line Conference
Variability design and customization mechanisms for COTS components
ICCSA'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Computational Science and its Applications - Volume Part I
Resolving architectural mismatches of COTS through architectural reconciliation
ICCBSS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
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Software product lines are increasingly built using components from specialized suppliers. A company that is in the middle of a supply chain has to integrate components from its suppliers and offer (partially configured) products to its customers. To satisfy both the variability required by each customer and the variability required to satisfy different customers' needs, it may be necessary for such a company to use components from different suppliers, partly offering the same feature set. This leads to a product line with alternative components, possibly using different mechanisms for interfacing, binding and variability, which commonly occurs in embedded software development. In this paper, we describe the limitations of the current practice of combining heterogeneous components in a product line and describe the challenges that arise from software supply chains. We introduce a model-driven approach for automating the integration between components that can generate a partially or fully configured variant, including glue between mismatched components. We analyze the consequences of using this approach in an industrial context, using a case study derived from an existing supply chain and describe the process and roles associated with this approach.