A Metamodeling Approach to Tracing Variability between Requirements and Architecture in Software Product Lines Export

@proceedings{citeulike:3772512, abstract = {Even in traditional single software product development, failure to manage changes in requirements can cause degeneration of the architecture and components. Traceability issues are even more important in the product line because the impact of changes in a product line can involve all the product line-based applications. Variability means the ability of a software system to be changed, customized or configured for use in a particular context and it should be managed at different levels of abstraction. In this paper, we suggest a metamodeling approach to support the tracing of the variability in requirements and architecture. Two metamodels representing the domain requirements and domain architecture with variability are proposed. Based on the proposed metamodels, we describe trace relationships between requirements and architecture with respect to variability.}, author = {Moon, Mikyeong and Chae, Heung S. and Nam, Taewoo and Yeom, Keunhyuk}, booktitle = {Computer and Information Technology, 2007. CIT 2007. 7th IEEE International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {3772512}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2007.117}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4385204}, doi = {10.1109/CIT.2007.117}, journal = {Computer and Information Technology, 2007. CIT 2007. 7th IEEE International Conference on}, keywords = {product-line-engineering, traceability, variability-management}, pages = {927--933}, posted-at = {2008-12-11 09:47:40}, priority = {2}, title = {A Metamodeling Approach to Tracing Variability between Requirements and Architecture in Software Product Lines}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2007.117}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3772512 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3772512 N2 - Even in traditional single software product development, failure to manage changes in requirements can cause degeneration of the architecture and components. Traceability issues are even more important in the product line because the impact of changes in a product line can involve all the product line-based applications. Variability means the ability of a software system to be changed, customized or configured for use in a particular context and it should be managed at different levels of abstraction. In this paper, we suggest a metamodeling approach to support the tracing of the variability in requirements and architecture. Two metamodels representing the domain requirements and domain architecture with variability are proposed. Based on the proposed metamodels, we describe trace relationships between requirements and architecture with respect to variability. JF - Computer and Information Technology, 2007. CIT 2007. 7th IEEE International Conference on EP - 933 TI - A Metamodeling Approach to Tracing Variability between Requirements and Architecture in Software Product Lines T2 - Computer and Information Technology, 2007. CIT 2007. 7th IEEE International Conference on SP - 927 KW - product-line-engineering KW - traceability KW - variability-management AU - Moon, Mikyeong AU - Chae, Heung AU - Nam, Taewoo AU - Yeom, Keunhyuk PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIT.2007.117 ER -