Making Use Case Slices Manage Variability in Aspect-based Product Line

Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan, Mansour Zand

2009

Abstract

Use case slice, clearly lacks composition mechanism due to which it is difficult to manage variabilities in Software Product Lines. A use case slice can only convey the design of a single member of a product line. Aspect-based modeling of use case slices look to be a promising solution but there are few issues within their composition mechanism. Aspect-based modeling of use case slices clearly lack a strong and familiar algebraic model and also fails to address precedence management issues among artifacts such as pointcuts and advices. This paper suggests a composition mechanism, for aspect-based implementation of use case slices, which would provide a familiar algebraic model and will resolve issues related to precedence management. In this paper we have discussed about a hypothetical aspect-based Expressions Product Line (EPL) and have shown how the use case slices can be used to model the variabilities in EPL.

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Mahadevan Srinivasan S. and Zand M. (2009). Making Use Case Slices Manage Variability in Aspect-based Product Line . In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-90-6, pages 141-148. DOI: 10.5220/0002200301410148


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msvveis09,
author={Satish Mahadevan Srinivasan and Mansour Zand},
title={Making Use Case Slices Manage Variability in Aspect-based Product Line},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={141-148},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002200301410148},
isbn={978-989-8111-90-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Modelling, Simulation, Verification and Validation of Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MSVVEIS, (ICEIS 2009)
TI - Making Use Case Slices Manage Variability in Aspect-based Product Line
SN - 978-989-8111-90-6
AU - Mahadevan Srinivasan S.
AU - Zand M.
PY - 2009
SP - 141
EP - 148
DO - 10.5220/0002200301410148