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Demo: Ménage - Product Line Architectures

Staff: Rob Egelink

Advisor: André van der Hoek

Abstract: Ménage is an environment for managing evolving product family architectures. Ménage is built on top of the xADL 2.0 extensible architecture description language to provide a user with a graphical user interface through which they can manage two critical aspects of a product line architecture:

• optionality: optional elements may or may not be present when a particular product architecture is instantiated out of a product line architecture.
• variability: variant elements define the variation points along which individual product architectures differ from each other.

In addition, Ménage explicitly integrates support for the evolution of a product line architecture, supporting both fine-grained versioning on individual architectural elements and large-grained versioning on the product line architecture as a whole.

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