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International Conference on Software Product Lines

SPLC 2005: Software Product Lines pp 174–185Cite as

Product-Line Architecture: New Issues for Evaluation

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Abstract

In the product-line context, where a lack or mismatch in a quality attribute is potentially replicated among all products, product-line evaluation could detect problems before concrete products are developed. The life span of a software product-line architecture is much longer than the one of an ordinary software product and it serves as a basis for a set of related systems. Therefore, the product-line architecture should be adaptable to evolution as well as support a number of different products. All these characteristics set new requirements to the product-line architecture evaluation. This paper highlights the new issues that can arise when evaluating a product-line architecture versus evaluating a single-system architecture, including classifications of relevant attributes in product-line architecture evaluation, new evaluation moments and techniques. These issues are used as components of a framework to survey product-line architecture evaluation methods and metrics.

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Mondragon, Loramendi 4, 20500, Mondragon, Spain

    Leire Etxeberria & Goiuria Sagardui

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    Klaus Pohl

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Etxeberria, L., Sagardui, G. (2005). Product-Line Architecture: New Issues for Evaluation. In: Obbink, H., Pohl, K. (eds) Software Product Lines. SPLC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11554844_20

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