An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Software Product Line Engineering

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is a relatively new software development paradigm to improve systematic software reuse. There are two key assets underpin the software product line (SPL) development: a feature model and a reference architecture. To deal with complex crosscutting behaviours in SPLs and also manage the impact of nonfunctional requirements (NFRs), we propose an aspect-oriented framework in this paper. The proposed framework is able to improve the modeling of interrelationships between design factors and representation of the variabilities in product family. We introduce a small case study to illustrate our approach at the end. Keywords-software quality; software product line; domain engineering; aspect-oriented; crosscutting concern