Transitioning from Product Line Requirements to Product Line Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Juha Savolainen;Ian Oliver;Mike Mannion;Hailang Zuo

  • Affiliations:
  • Nokia Research Center;Nokia Research Center;Glasgow Caledonian University;Glasgow Caledonian University

  • Venue:
  • COMPSAC '05 Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Software product line development is a compromise between customer requirements, existing product line architectural constraints and commercial needs. Managing variability is the key to a successful product line development. Product line models of requirements and features can be constructed that contain variation points. New products can be driven by making requirement selections from a product line model of requirements but as the product line evolves selections are constrained by the design of the existing product line architecture and the cost of making these changes. We present a set of rules that map the selection constraint values of requirements to the selection constraint values of features which in turn map on to the selection constraint values of architectural assets. We illustrate the application of the rules using a worked example.