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MAP - Mining Architectures for Product Line Evaluations

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MAP - Mining Architectures for Product Line Evaluations
Product lines evolve out of existing products. In order to evaluate the potential of creating a product line from existing products it is necessary to `mine' their architectures and analyze the commonalities and variabilities across those architectures. To manage the evaluation process in a disciplined way this paper introduces the MAP (Mining Architectures for Product lines) method. MAP outlines a bottom-up approach for mining the architecture of the existing products, a top-down approach to mapping architectural styles and attributes onto the mined architectures and an approach to analyzing their commonalities and variabilities. It combines well-known architecture reconstruction and product line analysis techniques. A case study is presented showing the application of the method and its benefits are outlined. Keywords Architecture, Architecture Styles, Attributes, Architecture Reconstruction , Components, Product Lines.
Christoph Stoermer, Liam O'Brien
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Type Conference
Year 2001
Where WICSA
Authors Christoph Stoermer, Liam O'Brien
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