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Managing variability insoftware applications
Managing variability in software applications
About me
Stephan Hochdörfer, bitExpert AG
Department Manager Research Labs
@shochdoerfer
One customer, optimized solution
Managing variability in software applications
Developer vs. Businessman
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Different requirements
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Different requirements: intensive workload
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Different requirements: Performance
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Where will this lead to?
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Maintanance nightmare!
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Standardize you should!
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Application framework?
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Plugin based approach?
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Configuration chaos?
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No automation?
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Generalize you should!
Generative Programming
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Dealing with software system families, reusable
implementation components and configuration knowledge.
Generative Programming: The workflow
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GeneratorGenerator
Generative Programming: The workflow
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Configuration(DSL)
Configuration(DSL)
GeneratorGenerator
Generative Programming: The workflow
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Configuration(DSL)
Configuration(DSL)
Implementation-components
Implementation-components GeneratorGenerator
Generative Programming: The workflow
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Configuration(DSL)
Configuration(DSL)
Implementation-components
Implementation-components GeneratorGenerator
ProductProduct
1..n
Generative Programming: The workflow
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Configuration(DSL)
Configuration(DSL)
Implementation-components
Implementation-components GeneratorGenerator
Customer 1Customer 1
Generative Programming: The workflow
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Configuration(DSL)
Configuration(DSL)
Implementation-components
Implementation-components GeneratorGenerator
Customer 1Customer 1
Customer 2Customer 2
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Focus on the (software system) family!
Software System Family
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Set of applications with similar properties as well as special properties for each individual
member.
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Phase 1: Domain analysis
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Listen to the customers
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Talk to domain experts
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Do the requirements make sense?
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Does it belong to the family?
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Does it belong to the family?
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Does it belong to the family?
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Does it belong to the family? Maybe...
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Does it belong to the family? No!
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Does it belong to the family? No!
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Phase 2: Domain design
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Feature Modelling
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Phase 3: Domain implementation
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Implementation components
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Configuration Knowledge
Generative Programming
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Generator
Domain Engineering
Domain-analysis
Domain-design
Domain-implementation
Generative Programming
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Generator Product
Domain Engineering App. Engineering
Domain-analysis
Domain-design
Domain-implementation
Requirementsanalysis
Productconfiguration
Testing andintegration
Newrequirements
Components,DSL,Generators,Infrastructure
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Technology projection
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Implement the generator...
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Standardize you should!
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Software generator framework
Generative Programming: The goal
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Increasing the productivity, quality, and time-to-market.
Generative Programming: The goal
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Create an optimized application on demand!
Generative Programming: The goal
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Automate the assembling of the components!
Generative Programming: Bonus points
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Generative Programming: Bonus points
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Less error-prone, due to the automation.
Generative Programming: Bonus points
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Reduce application complexity.
Generative Programming: Bonus points
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Just one code repository: The software generator
Generative Programming: Bonus points
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Reduce maintenance support.
Generative Programming: Bonus points
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FeatureImplementation
component
Generative Programming: Bonus points
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Feature Customer
Generative Programming: Bonus points
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Feature
Implementationcomponent
Customer
Generative Programming: The book
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Curious for more?
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http://replicatorframework.org
Thank you!
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