Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families: Second International ESPRIT ARES Workshop Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain February 26–27, 1998 Proceedings

267 Pages·1998·2.68 MB·English

by  Henk Obbink

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1429
Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Development
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of Software Architectures
for Product Families
Second International ESPRIT ARES Workshop
Las Palmas de Gran Canada, Spain
February 26-27, 1998
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Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Frank van der Linden
Philips Research Laboratories
Prof. Holstlaan 4, 5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Preface
This book originates from a workshop organised by ESPRIT project 20 477, ARES in
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 1998. ARES is an acronym for
Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems. Within this project we investigate
techniques to deal with problems of software architecture of families of embedded
systems. It is the second workshop organised by this project. Its predecessor was held
in Las Navas de Marques, Spain, November 1996. The proceedings of the first
workshop are only available in electronic format at "http://www.dit.upm.es/~ares/".
The second workshop succeeded, even more than the first one, in gathering many of
the most prominent people working in the area of software architecture for product
families or product lines.
This second workshop consisted of six sessions. The first session was meant to
report the ARES results, according to the topics of the next five sessions. The
remaining sessions dealt with different aspects of software architecture, focussed on
applications for product families or product lines. Because there will be a separate
book covering all ARES results, the first session is not included in this book.
The workshop was chaired by Henk Obbink from Philips Research and Paul
Clements from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
They prepared and presented an overall conclusion at the end of the workshop. This
conclusion was used in the introduction to this book.
The programme committee consisted of people from all ARES partners:
Wolfgang Eixelsberger ABB Research
Mehdi Jazayeri Technische Universität Vienna
Jeff Kramer Imperial College
Juha Kuusela Nokia Research
Frank van der Linden Philips Research
Jeff Magee Imperial College
Henk Obbink Philips Research
Juan Antonio de la Puente Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Alex Ran Nokia Research
The workshop was held at a great place, with a good climate, due to the good work
of the local organisers: Juan Carlos Dueñas and Alejandro Alonso from Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid and Javier Miranda and Francisco J. Guerra from the
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Sessions were chaired by people from outside the ARES project: William Scherlis,
Dewayne Perry, Jean Marc DeBaud, Paul Clements, and David Weiss. They had a
facilitator’s role in guiding the discussion. Because of the structure of the workshop
there was a large amount of discussion. Reports of the sessions were prepared by
people from the programme committee and reviewed by the session chairs. These
reports are presented as the introductions to the sessions in this book.
Eindhoven, June 1998 Frank van der Linden
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Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1
H. Obbink, P.C. Clements, F.J. van der Linden
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Session 1: Example Architectures .......................................................................... 4
W. Scherlis, J. Kuusela
Reusable Framework for Telecontrol Protocols ..................................................... 6
G. Cysewski, T. Gromadzki, H. Lyskawa, M. Piechowka, S. Szejko,
W.E. Kozlowski, O. Vahamaki,
A Software Bus as a Platform for a Family of Distibuted Embedded System
Products .................................................................................................................. 14
E. Niemelä, H. Perunka, T. Korpipää
A Three-Tier Design Approach for a Family of Large AC Drive Control
Systems ................................................................................................................... 24
P. Kolb, B. Huber
Modular Turbine Control Software: A Software Architecture for the ABB Gas
Turbine Family Control System ............................................................................. 32
C. Ganz, M. Layes
Experiences with the Evolution of an Application Family Architecture ................ 39
A. Rösel
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Session 2: Architectural Description ...................................................................... 49
D.E. Perry, J. Kramer
Generic Architecture Descriptions for Product lines .............................................. 51
D.E. Perry
A Model of Interaction in Concurrent and Distributed Systems ............................ 57
N. Pryce, S. Crane
An Integral Hierarchy and Diversity Model for Describing Product Family
Architecture ............................................................................................................ 66
P. van de Hamer, F.J. van der Linden, A. Saunders, H. te Sligte
Koala, a Component Model for Consumer Electronics Product Software ............. 76
R. van Ommering
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Session 3: Architecture Recovery ........................................................................... 87
J.-M.DeBaud, M. Jazayeri
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Recovery of Architectural Structure: A Case Study................................................ 89
W. Eixelsberger, M. Kalan, M. Ogris, H. Beckman, B. Bellay, H. Gall
Reengineering C/C++ Source Code by Transforming State Machines .................. 97
R. Knor, G. Trausmuth, J. Weidl
An Experiment in Distributed Software Architecture Recovery ............................ 106
N.C. Mendonça, J. Kramer
Reverse Engineering to Recover and Describe a System’s Architecture ................ 115
B. Bellay, H. Gall
Can Legacy Systems Beget Product Lines? ........................................................... 123
N. Weiderman, J. Bergey, D. Smith, S. Tilley
The Relation Between the Product Line Development Entry Points and
Reengineering ......................................................................................................... 132
J.-M. DeBaud, J.-F. Girard
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Session 4: Analysis of Software Architectures........................................................ 140
P.C. Clements, J. de la Puente
Diagnostic Software Architectures ......................................................................... 143
R.T. Bechtold
A Software Architecture Evaluation Model ........................................................... 148
J.C. Dueñas, W.L. de Oliveira, J.A. de la Puente
An Architectural Infrastructure for Product Families ............................................. 158
R. Balzer
Assessment of Timing Properties of Family Products ............................................ 161
A. Alonso, M. García-Valls, J. de la Puente
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Session 5: Development Process............................................................................. 170
D.M. Weiss, F.J. van der Linden
Stakeholders in Software-system Family Architectures ......................................... 172
T. Dolan, R. Weterings, J.C. Wortmann
Handling Variant Requirements in Software Architectures for Product Families... 188
C.C. Yu, A.L. Ananda, S. Jarzabek
Architecture-Centric Software Development Based on Extended Design Spaces. 197
L. Baum, L. Geyer, G. Molter, S. Rothkugel, P. Sturm
Architecting for Domain Variability ...................................................................... 205
J. Meekel, T.B. Horton, C. Mellone
Commonality Analysis: A Systematic Process for Defining Families ................... 214
D.M. Weiss
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Structuring Design Decissions for Evolution ......................................................... 223
A. Karhinen, J. Kuusela
Structural Views, Structural Evolution, and Product Families ............................... 235
W.L. Scherlis
Product Family and Reuse in Separate Market Driven Profit Centers ................... 241
J. Brouwer, A. Jurriens, H. van Kessel, A. Schippers
ERW’97 Session Report: Reuse Adoption Experiences Across a Large
Corporation.............................................................................................................. 249
S. Bandinelli
Author Index .......................................................................................................... 257
Introduction
1 2 1
Henk Obbink , Paul C. Clements , Frank van der Linden
1
Philips Research Laboratories, Prof Holstlaan 4
5656 AA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
{obbink,flinden}@natlab.research.philips.com
2
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[email protected]
Many companies are looking for ways to minimise the costs of developing new products and to maximise
sharing and reuse of software structure and components used in a product family. The ESPRIT IV project
20.477, ARES (Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Software), focuses on methods, techniques and tools to
manage the diversity of products in a family at the level of software architecture. The charter of ARES is to find
ways to help design reliable systems with embedded software that satisfy important quality requirements,
evolve gracefully and may be built in-time and on-budget. ARES also addresses the problem of relating the
features which differentiate the members of a product family to an architecture for that family. ARES aims to
address the variance required by a product family at the architectural level and to map a feature selection to an
instance of an architecture. Topics of interest also include specification of software architecture, architecture
recovery, assessment of software architecture, and other subjects related to development and evolution of
software architecture for product families. This project is a joint project between Nokia (prime contractor),
Philips, ABB, Imperial College London, Technical University of Madrid and the Technical University of
Vienna.
In order to share and compare the results of the ARES project with the results of external efforts the ARES
project has organised two workshops on the Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product
Families. These proceedings are the result of the second of these workshops1. An explicit goal of the second
workshop was to gain insight in the state of the art (academia) and the state of practice (industries) in the
development of software architectures of product families/product lines. Moreover we wanted to know what are
the most promising paths to be taken for both industries and academia. Finally insight should be obtained for the
usefulness of the work of the academia for the industries.
There were 45 participants:
• 36 from Europe
• 8 from the United States
• 1 from Singapore
• 17 from the ARES project
• 20 from Universities
• 25 from Industries.
1. Sessions
Based upon the topics of interest for ARES, and the expected participants, we separated the workshop into
the following sessions:
1. ARES session
2. examples of architectures for product lines
3. architecture description
4. architecture analysis
5. architecture recovery
6. process issues

1 The proceedings of the first workshop were not published. The accepted position papers can be consulted at the ARES
web-site at UPM: http://www.dit.upm.es/~ares/
Frank v. d. Linden (Ed.): ARES ’98, LNCS 1429, pp. 1-3, 1998.
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