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A Metric-based Methodfor Evaluating 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.33, no.5, 2006 , pp. 449-459 More about this Journal
Abstract
Product Line Engineering (PLE) has been widely accepted as a representative software reuse methodology by using core assets. As a key element of core assets, product line architecture (PLA) should be generic to a set of applications in the product line (PL). However, the difference between PLA and single system architecture has not been treated well enough, so evaluating PLA still remains as one of the difficult tasks in PLE. In this paper, we identify two intrinsic but overlooked issues in PLA; variability propagation chain and conflicts between architectural elements. And, we present a metric-based methodto evaluate PLA from the perspective of the two issues. We believe that the two issues in PLA and the evaluation method would make designing high-quality PLA more feasible and effective.
Keywords
Product Line Engineering; Architecture; Architecture Evaluation; Metric;
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