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Workshop information - WICSA 2001 - Amsterdam - August 2001

Workshop 2: Architecture Reconstruction and Product Lines

Workshop Organizers:

William O'Brien (primary contact), Software Engineering Institute, tel. +1 (412) 268 7727,
email: lob@sei.cmu.edu

Christoph Stoermer, Robert Bosch Corp., Research and Technology Center, tel. +1 (412) 268 3949,
email: cstoermer@sei.cmu.edu

This workshop will focus on architecture reconstruction in product line contexts. In most cases product lines evolve out of existing products. To manage the evolution in a disciplined way organizations have to 'mine' existing assets for architecture, commonalities, and variabilities. Reconstruction focuses in most cases on an abstraction of at least a few components and interactions to present an understandable structure. But this focus is not sufficient in the context of product lines. To detect reusable components and variabilities for a potential product line migration there are further challenges: (1) The reconstruction process should be applied to at least one further product and (2) the analyst has to find a useful abstraction level to detect and describe the commonalties and variabilities. Summarized the objectives of this workshop are:

  • Experiences and techniques for architecture reconstruction
  • Experiences and techniques for finding commonalties and variabilities in legacy software.
  • Tool environments and techniques for reconstruction and finding commonalities and variabilities.
  • Benefits and costs of architecture reconstruction.
  • Open technical issues.

    • Participants are invited to submit a position paper with a contribution on one or more of the objectives. The workshop will consist of presentations of these papers in the morning session, followed by an afternoon session of discussion and collaboration.