Capturing Product Line Architectures

Although product line architectures serve an increasingly important role in the software development process, no representation currently exists in which they can be precisely captured. This position paper presents our work to date in addressing this problem. Specifically, we introduce a novel representation that can be used to specify the details of a product line architecture. The representation not only captures the variability that exists within a product line architecture, but also captures the evolution of the interfaces, components, and connections that constitute a product line architecture.