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| Tuesday 1 February 2000 | 14:00 | Brian Spratt Room |
| Dr Perdita Stevens Computer Science University of Edinburgh |
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As part of a wider interest in component based development, and especially in usable formal support for the design process, I have recently been considering the problem of modelling product-line architectures (PLAs) using the Unified Modelling Language (UML). Product-line architectures are now recognised as an important element in achieving component based development, and UML is now the standard modelling language for object oriented systems. The combination is therefore a natural one to underlie tools that support developers in the correct use or maintenance of a PLA.
I will briefly discuss how UML can be used to model PLAs and their use in products, and will go on to raise, and in part address, some issues about how tools can do more that just help in the production of diagrams, in connection with the specific issues that arise in this kind of design. I do not intend to assume much prior knowledge of UML or any of product-line architectures. This talk concerns work in progress: parts will be speculative and audience participation would be invaluable.
