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Realizing a Conceptual Framework to Integrate Model-Driven Engineering, Software Product Line Engineering, and Software Configuration Management

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Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2015)

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Software engineering is a highly integrative computer science discipline, combining a plethora of different techniques to increase the quality of software development as well as the resulting software. The three sub-disciplines Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE), Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) and Software Configuration Management (SCM) are well-explored, but literature still lacks an integrated solution. In this paper, we present the realization of a conceptual framework that integrates those three sub-disciplines uniformly based on a filtered editing model. The framework combines the check-out/modify/commit workflow known from SCM with the formalism of feature models and feature configurations known from SPLE. The implementation is model-driven and extensible with respect to different product and version space models. Important design decisions are formalized by means of Ecore metamodels. Furthermore, we propose several optimizations that increase the scalability of the conceptual framework.

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    Felix Schwägerl, Thomas Buchmann, Sabrina Uhrig & Bernhard Westfechtel

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  2. Department of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal

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  3. MODESTE/ESEO, Angers, France

    Slimane Hammoudi

  4. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Schwägerl, F., Buchmann, T., Uhrig, S., Westfechtel, B. (2015). Realizing a Conceptual Framework to Integrate Model-Driven Engineering, Software Product Line Engineering, and Software Configuration Management. In: Desfray, P., Filipe, J., Hammoudi, S., Pires, L. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 580. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27869-8_2

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