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Extending the RiPLE-DE process with quality attribute variability realization

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Software product lines engineering is a viable way to achieve the productivity gains desired by companies. Product line architecture must benefit from commonalities among products in the family and enable the variability among them. The aspect of variability in quality attributes has been neglected or ignored by most of the researchers as attention has been mainly put in functional variability. This paper describes an architecture and design process for software product lines that can properly deal with quality attribute variability. The proposed approach enhances the RiPLE-DE process for software product line engineering with activities and guidelines for quality attribute variability. An initial experimental study is presented to characterize and evaluate the proposed process enhancements.

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QoSA-ISARCS '11: Proceedings of the joint ACM SIGSOFT conference -- QoSA and ACM SIGSOFT symposium -- ISARCS on Quality of software architectures -- QoSA and architecting critical systems -- ISARCS
June 2011
206 pages
ISBN:9781450307246
DOI:10.1145/2000259
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  1. quality attribute variability
  2. software architecture
  3. software product lines (spl)
  4. software reuse

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