On the use of model transformation for the automation of product derivation process in SPL

Nesrine Lahiani; Djamal Bennouar

doi:10.2478/ausi-2018-0003

Abstract

Product Derivation represents one of the main challenges that Software Product Line (SPL) faces. Deriving individual products from shared software assets is a time-consuming and an expensive activity. In this paper, we (1) present an MDE approach for engineering SPL and (2) propose to leverage model-to-model transformations (MMT) and model-to-text (MTT) transformations for supporting both domain engineering and application engineering processes. In this work, we use ATL as a model-to-model transformation language and Acceleo as a model-to-text transformation language.The proposed approach is discussed with e-Health product line applications.

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On the use of model transformation for the automation of product derivation process in SPL

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