Software Product-Family Engineering: 5th International Workshop, PFE 2003, Siena, Italy, November 4-6, 2003. Revised Papers

Jan Bosch, Henk Obbink, Alessandro Maccari (auth.), Frank J. van der Linden (eds.)3540219412, 9783540219415, 9783540246671

This book contains the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Product Family Engineering, PFE-5. This workshop was held in Siena, Italy, November 4–6, 2003. This workshop was the fifth in the series, with the same subject, software product family engineering. These workshops have been held initially irregularly about every 18 months since 1996. Since 1999 the workshop has been held every second year in the fall. The proceedings of the second, third and fourth workshops were published as Springer LNCS volumes 1429, 1951 and 2290. The workshops were organized within co-operation projects of European industry. The first two were organized by ARES (Esprit IV 20.477) 1995–1999; this project had 3 industrial and 3 academic partners, and studied software architectures for product families. Some of the partners continued in the ITEA project if99005 ESAPS (1999–2001). ITEA is the software development programme (?! 2023) within the European Eureka initiative. ITEA projects last for 2 years, and ESAPS was succeeded by CAFÉ (ITEA if00004) for 2001–2003 and FAMILIES (ITEA if02009). This fifth workshop was initially prepared within CAFÉ and the preparation continued in FAMILIES. As usual Henk Obbink was the workshop chair, and Linda Northrop and Sergio Bandinelli were the co-chairs.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Research Topics and Future Trends….Pages 1-5
Testing Variabilities in Use Case Models….Pages 6-18
Exploring the Context of Product Line Adoption….Pages 19-31
A Quantitative Model of the Value of Architecture in Product Line Adoption….Pages 32-43
Multi-view Variation Modeling for Scenario Analysis….Pages 44-65
A Meta-model for Representing Variability in Product Family Development….Pages 66-80
Variability Dependencies in Product Family Engineering….Pages 81-97
Managing Component Variability within Embedded Software Product Lines via Transformational Code Generation….Pages 98-110
Evolving a Product Family in a Changing Context….Pages 111-128
Towards a UML Profile for Software Product Lines….Pages 129-139
Applying System Families Concepts to Requirements Engineering Process Definition….Pages 140-151
Elicitation of Use Cases for Product Lines….Pages 152-167
RequiLine: A Requirements Engineering Tool for Software Product Lines….Pages 168-180
PLUTO: A Test Methodology for Product Families….Pages 181-197
A Requirement-Based Approach to Test Product Families….Pages 198-210
Theorem Proving for Product Line Model Verification….Pages 211-224
A Koala-Based Approach for Modelling and Deploying Configurable Software Product Families….Pages 225-249
Feature Binding Analysis for Product Line Component Development….Pages 250-260
Patterns in Product Family Architecture Design….Pages 261-268
Differencing and Merging within an Evolving Product Line Architecture….Pages 269-281
A Relational Architecture Description Language for Software Families….Pages 282-295
Planning and Managing Product Line Evolution….Pages 296-309
A Cost Model for Software Product Lines….Pages 310-316
Salion’s Experience with a Reactive Software Product Line Approach….Pages 317-322
Towards a Taxonomy for Software Product Lines….Pages 323-331
Architecture Recovery for Product Families….Pages 332-351
Software Product Family Evaluation….Pages 352-369
Design for Quality….Pages 370-380
Economics of Software Product Lines….Pages 381-402
A Case Study of Two Configurable Software Product Families….Pages 403-421
Software Architecture Helpdesk….Pages 422-428
Different Aspects of Product Family Adoption….Pages 429-434
Dynamic Software Reconfiguration in Software Product Families….Pages 435-444
Architecture True Prototyping of Product Lines Using Personal Computer Networks….Pages 445-453
Making Variability Decisions during Architecture Design….Pages 454-465
Decision Model and Flexible Component Definition Based on XML Technology….Pages 466-472
A Product Derivation Framework for Software Product Families….Pages 473-484
Back Matter….Pages –