Asset Recovery and Incorporation into Product Lines

Asset Recovery and Incorporation into Product Lines

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Martin Pinzger, Jens Knodel, Isabel John, Dharmalingam Ganesan, Fernando Usero, Jose L. Arciniegas, Claudio Riva
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.
Asset Recovery and Incorporation into Product Lines
2005
IEEE Computer Society
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
November
120--129
s.e.a.l.