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The SPL Architecture (PLA) is one of the main artifacts of an SPL. It represents an abstraction of all possible products that can be generated from an SPL. Important PLA requirements include (i) remain stable during the SPL lifetime, (ii) easy integration of new features during the architecture life cycle, and (iii) explicit representation of variability for providing reuse. Therefore, this chapter presents the SMartyComponents process for designing UML-based PLAs. SMartyComponents is based on the UML Components process and provides systematic activities to modeling component-based PLAs based on the SMarty approach, mainly focused on component diagram elements, such as components, interfaces, ports, and operations according to the standard UML metamodel. Workflows of SMartyComponents include: Requirements Workflow and Specification Workflow. The former is composed of activities as Develop Business Concept Model, Develop Business Processes, and Identify Use Cases. The latter activities are Component Identification, Component Interactions, and Component Specification. The main product developed using SMartyComponents is a component-based PLA with variabilities modeled in components, interfaces, ports, and operations.
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This work is supported by the Brazilian funding agency CNPq (Grant 428994/2018-0).
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Bera, M.H.G., Colanzi, T.E., OliveiraJr, E., Tenório, N., Freire, W.M., Amaral, A.M.M.M. (2023). Product-Line Architecture Designing with SMartyComponents. In: OliveiraJr, E. (eds) UML-Based Software Product Line Engineering with SMarty. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18556-4_6
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