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A Practical Techniquefor Designing Product Line Architecture  

Chang Soo Ho (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
La Hyun Jung (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Kim Soo Dong (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.3, 2005 , pp. 163-172 More about this Journal
Abstract
Product Line Engineering (PLE) has been widely accepted as a representative software reuse methodology by using core assets. Product line architecture (PLA) is a key element of core assets. However, current research works on designing PLA do not provide sufficient and detailed guidelines of defining PLA and reflecting variability in the architecture. In this paper, we present a reference model of PLA and propose a process to design PLA with detailed instructions. Especially architectural variability is codified by describing decision model depending variation points and traced through PLA activities. The proposed process would make it feasible to apply PLE to practice areas.
Keywords
Product Line Engineering; Architecture; Process; Variability;
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