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Analysis of a cross-domain reference architecture using change scenarios

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Liliana Dobrica,

Eila OvaskaAuthors Info & Claims

ECSA '11: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume

Article No.: 10, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/2031759.2031771

Published: 13 September 2011 Publication History

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The content of this paper addresses the issue of how to perform analysis of a cross domain reference architecture. The cross domain reference architecture is designed based on the domains requirements and features modeling. The definition of a cross domain reference architecture is based on well known concepts from software architecture description, service orientation and product line. We apply a method based on change scenarios to analyze variability at the architectural level. In order to handle complexity in analysis we propose categories of change scenarios to be derived from each problem domain and we provide informal guidelines for each step of the analysis method.

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Allian ASena BNakagawa EHung CPapadopoulos G(2019)Evaluating variability at the software architecture levelProceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/3297280.3297511(2354-2361)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297280.3297511
Martínez-Fernández SAyala CFranch XMartins Marques H(2013)Benefits and drawbacks of reference architecturesProceedings of the 7th European conference on Software Architecture10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_26(307-310)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_26

Index Terms

Analysis of a cross-domain reference architecture using change scenarios
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Abstract data types
        Control structures
        Polymorphism

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ECSA '11: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume

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ISBN:9781450306188

DOI:10.1145/2031759

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Allian ASena BNakagawa EHung CPapadopoulos G(2019)Evaluating variability at the software architecture levelProceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/3297280.3297511(2354-2361)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297280.3297511
Martínez-Fernández SAyala CFranch XMartins Marques H(2013)Benefits and drawbacks of reference architecturesProceedings of the 7th European conference on Software Architecture10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_26(307-310)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_26

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