Feature-Guided Architecture Development for Embedded System Families

  • Authors:
  • T. J. Brown;R. Bashroush;C. Gillan;I. Spence;P. Kilpatrick

  • Affiliations:
  • Queen's University of Belfast;Queen's University of Belfast;Queen's University of Belfast;Queen's University of Belfast;Queen's University of Belfast

  • Venue:
  • WICSA '05 Proceedings of the 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Software product-line engineering aims to maximize reuse by exploiting the commonality within families of related systems. Its success depend on capturing the commonality and variability, and using this to evolve a reference architecture for the product family. With embedded system families, the possibility of variability in hardware and operating system platforms is an added complication. In this paper we outline a strategy for evolving reference architectures from bi-directional feature models. The proposed strategy complements information provided by the feature model with scenarios that help to elaborate feature behavior.