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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings No
Title Asset Recovery and Incorporation into Product Lines
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jens Knodel
  • Isabel John
  • Dharmalingam Ganesan
  • Martin Pinzger
  • Fernando Usero
  • Jose L. Arciniegas
  • Claudio Riva
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Page Range 120 - 129
Event Title Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Place of Publication Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Publisher IEEE Computer Society
Abstract Text Software product lines aim in having a common platform from which several similar products can be derived. The elements of the platform are called assets and they are managed in an asset base being part of the product line infrastructure. The products are then built on top of the assets. Assets can include own developments, open source or third-party software modules, as well as design and project documents. In the context of the European-wide project FAMILIES we concentrated on techniques used to build the platform with focus on the recovery of these assets from existing systems. We present an approach on how to incorporate existing assets into the product line infrastructure. Thereby we explicitly distinguish the asset origins and the different information sources available. The incorporation is a quality-driven process that is backed up by a set of reverse engineering techniques to evaluate the asset’s internal quality. The quality assessment of an asset is the critical measurement for industrial development organizations in order to incorporate assets into their product line infrastructure.
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