FIT3077 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Feature Model, Distributed Computing, Code Reuse
22 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Software Product Lines : Re-using Architectural Assets
Why SPL
●Most organisaons develop a set of products in a certain business area
●Developing similar products always from scratch is
○Expensible
○Redundant effort
●Achieve domain-specific re-use
●A set of soware-intensive systems sharing a common managed set of features that sasfy
the specific needs of a parcular market segment or mission and that are developed from a
common set of core assets in a prescribed way
Why Re-Use
●Increasing complexity of systems
●Reducing cost, effort me-to-market
●Increasing demand for customized products
●Increasing inter projects/systems dependencies
Ad-hoc re-use
Issues Ad-hoc
●Does not
scale
within an
organisaon and across me
SPL Benefits
Explicit, planned re-use of a soware architecture and other assets
SPL Vision
Of a set of re-usable assets that includes
●A base architecture
●Common, perhaps customizable, elements that populate it designs and their documentaon
●User manuals
●Project management arfacts such as budgets and schedules soware test plans and test
cases
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