Product Line Annotations with UML-F
Abstract
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) community has started to define so-called profiles in order to better suit the needs of specific domains or settings. Product lines1 represent a special breed of systems they are extensible semi-finished pieces of software. Completing the semi-finished software leads to various software pieces, typically specific applications, which share the same core. Though product lines have been developed for a wide range of domains, they apply common construction principles. The intention of the UML-F profile (for framework architectures) is the definition of a UML subset, enriched with a few UML-compliant extensions, which allows the annotation of such artifacts. This paper presents aspects of the profile with a focus on patterns and exemplifies the profile's usage.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.4082,
title = {Product Line Annotations with UML-F},
author = {Wolfgang Pree and Marcus Fontoura and Bernhard Rumpe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.4082},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 9 figures