[Moose-dev] Re: Software Product Lines and Moose

Cool. It would be cool to have this as a piece of news on moosetechnology.org. Could you add it? Cheers, Doru On 15 Jul 2012, at 23:02, Alexandre Bergel wrote: > Hi! > > Just to keep you informed. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > The field of software product lines is about managing variations in software configuration. The control software systems installed in a car typically reflect the different options one may want on a car. The space of configuration is often ridiculously large. The system of a BMW line has more different configurations than the amount of atoms the Universe is made of. > > Software product lines are classically represented as a tree using a simple visual language. Whereas efficient at specification time, this language has several shortcomings, including poor ability to scale and ineffectiveness at understanding a large description. > > An ECOSud project has been granted by both the Chilean and the French national research agencies. The project involves the University of Chile and the Polytech Engineering school in Sophia Antipolis. > > The topic of the project is to explore new ways to understand and verify large software product lines specified using the Familiar language [*]. First, a parser has been written using PetitParser. Second, a metamodelisation of the product lines has been made with Moose. The parser creates from a Familiar program an instance of the meta-model we designed. Glamour then gives us a navigation browser for free. Roassal is then used to visually represent a model structure and the result of their associated metrics. > > A software product line specification involves many dimensions, e.g., the definition of a feature, interaction between features, constraints between group of features. All those dimensions cannot be effectively simultaneously explored. Roassal supports a large range of interactive visualization mechanisms to make a product line exploration effective. > > The ECOSud project has been initiated in June 2012. It enables the mobility of researchers and will span until the end of next year. > Stay tuned! > > > [*] Familiar: https://nyx.unice.fr/projects/familiar/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Cheers, > Alexandre > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing should have the right to be different."