Modularizing Software Process Lines using Model-driven Approaches - A Comparative Study

Fellipe A. Aleixo, Uirá Kulesza, Marília Freire, Daniel Alencar, Edmilson Campos Neto

2012

Abstract

This work presents a comparative study of the usage of compositional and annotational approaches in the modularization of software process lines. In our comparative study, an Open-UP based software process line extracted from three existing projects are modelled and implemented using the compositional and annotative approaches with the main aim to address a systematic variability management and automatic process derivation. The results show that the GenArch-P – annotative approach – can bring many advantages to the modelling of software process lines considering our comparison criteria.

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A. Aleixo F., Kulesza U., Freire M., Alencar D. and Campos Neto E. (2012). Modularizing Software Process Lines using Model-driven Approaches - A Comparative Study . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-11-2, pages 120-125. DOI: 10.5220/0004005801200125


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis12,
author={Fellipe A. Aleixo and Uirá Kulesza and Marília Freire and Daniel Alencar and Edmilson Campos Neto},
title={Modularizing Software Process Lines using Model-driven Approaches - A Comparative Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={120-125},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004005801200125},
isbn={978-989-8565-11-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Modularizing Software Process Lines using Model-driven Approaches - A Comparative Study
SN - 978-989-8565-11-2
AU - A. Aleixo F.
AU - Kulesza U.
AU - Freire M.
AU - Alencar D.
AU - Campos Neto E.
PY - 2012
SP - 120
EP - 125
DO - 10.5220/0004005801200125