Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
FORM: A feature-oriented reuse method with domain-specific reference architectures
Annals of Software Engineering
Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques
Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques
Product Line Implementation using Aspect-Oriented and Model-Driven Software Development
SPLC '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Software Product Line Conference
Delta-oriented architectural variability using MontiCore
Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume
Mapping features to models: a template approach based on superimposed variants
GPCE'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
A Pattern-Based Modeling Approach for Software Product Line Engineering
HICSS '13 Proceedings of the 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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Software product lines (SPL) are a popular concept to represent commonalities and variability among a family of software systems. In many approaches to SPL engineering, feature modelling is used to specify which common and different features instances of an SPL can have. By mapping features to components realising that feature, the software architecture of the SPL instance can be derived from the features it requires. However, many approaches to feature modelling and mapping to implementation ignore the fact that features are often not implemented by a single component alone but by a set of components combined in a specific way. Moreover, they are often unable to capture implementation alternatives for features. In this paper, we motivate the need for a more extensive way of mapping features to alternatives of architecture fragments by an illustrative example. We discuss the challenges of composing a software architecture out of architecture fragments and outline a solution approach.