Acta Informatica Pragensia 2016, 5(2), 138-143 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.902750

A DSL-based Approach to Product Derivation for Software Product Line

Nesrine Lahiani1, Djamal Bennouar2
1 Department of Informatics, Université Saâd Dahlab de Blida, B. P. 270, Route de Soumâa, 09000 Blida, Algeria
2 Department of Informatics, Université de Bouira, Rue Drissi Yahia, Bouira 10000, Algeria

Product derivation is an important part of the Software Product Line (SPL) development process. The quality of a product derivation process has a direct impact in decreasing software product costs and time-to-market. In this paper, we present an approach that represents the SPL with a set of integrated models and automatically derives executable products with model transformations. We combine SPL and Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) into a comprehensive and extremely effective framework in order to get advantages of both techniques. In order to evaluate the feasibility of our approach, we have designed and implemented it using existing and available technologies.

Keywords: Product derivation, Software product line, Domain specific language, Model-driven engineering

Received: October 15, 2016; Revised: November 25, 2016; Accepted: December 1, 2016; Published: December 31, 2016  Show citation

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