This book originates from a workshop organised by ESPRIT project 20 477, ARES in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 1998. ARES is an acronym for Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems. Within this project we investigate techniques to deal with problems of software architecture of families of embedded systems. It is the second workshop organised by this project. Its predecessor was held in Las Navas de Marques, Spain, November 1996. The proceedings of the first workshop are only available in electronic format at "http://www.dit.upm.es/~ares/". The second workshop succeeded, even more than the first one, in gathering many of the most prominent people working in the area of software architecture for product families or product lines. This second workshop consisted of six sessions. The first session was meant to report the ARES results, according to the topics of the next five sessions. The remaining sessions dealt with different aspects of software architecture, focussed on applications for product families or product lines. Because there will be a separate book covering all ARES results, the first session is not included in this book. The workshop was chaired by Henk Obbink from Philips Research and Paul Clements from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. They prepared and presented an overall conclusion at the end of the workshop. This conclusion was used in the introduction to this book.
Author(s): Henk Obbink, Paul C. Clements, Frank van der Linden (auth.), Frank van der Linden (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1429
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 258
Tags: Software Engineering
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Session 1:Example Architectures....Pages 4-5
Reusable Framework for Telecontrol Protocols....Pages 6-13
A Software Bus as a Platform for a Family of Distributed Embedded System Products....Pages 14-23
A Three-Tier Design Approach for a Family of Large AC Drive Control Systems....Pages 24-31
Modular Turbine Control Software: A Control Software Architecture for the ABB Gas Turbine Family....Pages 32-38
Experiences with the Evolution of an Application Family Architecture....Pages 39-48
Architectural Description....Pages 49-50
Generic Architecture Descriptions for Product Lines....Pages 51-56
A Model of Interaction in Concurrent and Distributed Systems....Pages 57-65
An Integral Hierarchy and Diversity Model for Describing Product Family Architectures....Pages 66-75
Koala, a Component Model for Consumer Electronics Product Software....Pages 76-86
Architecture Recovery....Pages 87-88
Recovery of Architectural Structure: A Case Study....Pages 89-96
Reengineering C/C++ Source Code by Transforming State Machines....Pages 97-105
An Experiment in Distributed Software Architecture Recovery....Pages 106-114
Reverse Engineering to Recover and Describe a System’s Architecture....Pages 115-122
Can Legacy Systems Beget Product Lines?....Pages 123-131
The Relation between the Product Line Development Entry Points and Reengineering....Pages 132-139
Session 4: Analysis of Software Architectures....Pages 140-142
Diagnostic Software Architectures....Pages 143-147
A Software Architecture Evaluation Model....Pages 148-157
An Architectural Infrastructure for Product Families....Pages 158-160
Assessment of Timing Properties of Family Products....Pages 161-169
Session 5: Development Process....Pages 170-171
Stakeholders in Software-System Family Architectures....Pages 172-187
Handling Variant Requirements in Software Architectures for Product Families....Pages 188-196
Architecture-Centric Software Development Based on Extended Design Spaces....Pages 197-204
Architecting for Domain Variability....Pages 205-213
Commonality Analysis: A Systematic Process for Defining Families....Pages 214-222
Structuring Design Decisions for Evolution....Pages 223-234
Structural Views, Structural Evolution, and Product Families....Pages 235-240
Product Family and Reuse in Separate Market Driven Profit Centers....Pages 241-248
ERW’97 Session Report: Reuse Adoption Experiences Across a Large Corporation....Pages 249-256
