Extending UML Components to Develop Software Product-Line Architectures: Lessons Learned

This paper presents an experience in extending and evaluating UML Components for guiding the derivation of component-based product-line architectures (PLAs). We present a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of such an extension when applied to the proactive design of two PLAs. We have found that our approach supported an agile conception of architectural designs that are modular and likely to be resilient to changes over time and good enough to serve as the basis for more specific design decisions made by the architects.

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