Database Evolution for Software Product Lines

Kai Herrmann, Jan Reimann, Hannes Voigt, Birgit Demuth, Stefan Fromm, Robert Stelzmann, Wolfgang Lehner

2015

Abstract

Software product lines (SPLs) allow creating a multitude of individual but similar products based on one common software model. Software components can be developed independently and new products can be generated easily. Inevitably, software evolves, a new version has to be deployed, and the data already existing in the database has to be transformed accordingly. As independently developed components are compiled into an individual SPL product, the local evolution script of every involved component has to be weaved into a single global database evolution script for the product. In this paper, we report on the database evolution toolkit DAVE in the context of an industry project. DAVE solves the weaving problem and provides a feasible solution for database evolution in SPLs.

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Herrmann K., Reimann J., Voigt H., Demuth B., Fromm S., Stelzmann R. and Lehner W. (2015). Database Evolution for Software Product Lines . In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-758-103-8, pages 125-133. DOI: 10.5220/0005484101250133


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@conference{data15,
author={Kai Herrmann and Jan Reimann and Hannes Voigt and Birgit Demuth and Stefan Fromm and Robert Stelzmann and Wolfgang Lehner},
title={Database Evolution for Software Product Lines},
booktitle={Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2015},
pages={125-133},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005484101250133},
isbn={978-989-758-103-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - Database Evolution for Software Product Lines
SN - 978-989-758-103-8
AU - Herrmann K.
AU - Reimann J.
AU - Voigt H.
AU - Demuth B.
AU - Fromm S.
AU - Stelzmann R.
AU - Lehner W.
PY - 2015
SP - 125
EP - 133
DO - 10.5220/0005484101250133