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Techniques for Designing Logic and Workflow Variability in Software Component Development  

정광선 (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
김수동 (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.31, no.8, 2004 , pp. 1027-1042 More about this Journal
Abstract
A Software Component is a module that is reused among a lot of projects, systems, and companies rather than a single application. Components can be reused in various systems if they provide not only the common functionalities required in many applications but also the diverse aspects to be customized for being suitable for customers' demands. From the development phase, components should be designed and developed considering the variable aspects they have for convenient customization. Easily customized components can be frequently reused in lots of applications. In the literature, there are some modeling and customizing techniques. But they suggested only conceptual or basic methods based on Object-Oriented. And the practical instructions for reusing component were not provided sufficiently. Moreover, there are few techniques that consider the proper variability types components have. Thus, those techniques are not appropriate for applying to black box component completely developed and released. In this paper, we classify variabilities that components have in functional aspect into two categories. The one is logic variability, and the other is workflow variability. For each classified variability, we propose the three kind of modeling techniques, which are selection, plug in and externalization. Also detailed instructions for practical design and application are provided.
Keywords
Component; Reuse; Variability Modeling Techniques; Customize; Required Interface;
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