Software Variant Managements Based On Architectural Introduction

Abstract

The capability of the variant handlings is the groundwork to reach quality attributes of software products, such as reusability, adaptability, maintainability, evolvability, and so on. Furthermore, reusability, adaptability, and evolvability have great impacts on maintainability. Software architecture is one promising solution to them. Upon the contributions of the software architecture to the software development, architectural introduction is proposed to effectively manage the software variants. First, the management mechanism of the software variants (SVMM) and the management space of the software variants (SVMS) are proposed. Then, the SVMM based on the architectural introduction is illustrated. Three, the activities of it are detailed. One successful example of the architectural introduction is also included.