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A Specification Technique for Product Line Core Assets using MDA / PIM  

Min, Hyun-Gi (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Han, Man-Jib (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Kim, Soo-Dong (숭실대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.9, 2005 , pp. 835-846 More about this Journal
Abstract
A Product Line (PL) is a set of products (applications) that share common assets in a domain. Product Line Engineering (PLE) is a set of principles, techniques, mechanisms, and processes that enables the instantiation of produce lines. Core assets, the common assets, are created and instantiated to make products in PLE. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new software development paradigm that emphasizes its feasibility with automatically developing product. Therefore, we can get advantages of both of the two paradigms, PLE and MDA, if core assets are represented as PIM in MDA with predefined automatic mechanism. PLE framework in the PIM level has to be interpreted by MDA tools. However, we do not have a standard UML profile for representing core assets. The research about representing PLE framework is not enough to make automatically core assets and products. We represent core asset in PIM level in terms of structural view and semantic view. We also suggest a method for representing architecture, component, workflow, algorithm, and decision model. The method of representing framework with PLE and MDA is used to improve productivity, applicability, maintainability and qualify of product.
Keywords
MDA; PLE; UML Profile; Software Architecture;
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