Mapping Feature Models Onto Component Models to Build Dynamic Software Product Lines

Abstract

Systems such as adaptative and context–aware ones must adapt themselves to changing requirements at runtime. Modeling and implementing this kind of systems is a diffi- cult operation. Software Product Lines (SPL) approach has already coped with modeling a set of software products that share a common base of features by means of feature models. We propose using feature models to model the potential states of a product in what it is called Dynamic SPL. The objective of this paper is generating a component architecture that supports the dynamics of products and which is easily inferred from a feature model. The resultant model performs an automated analysis of the feature model in real–time to correctly response to changes.