Toward an Architecture-Based Method for Selecting Composer Components to Make Software Product Line

Abstract

Nowadays, product line, as an important topic in software development domain, has been paid attention by software engineering practitioners. Finding suitable components to construct an efficient and comprehensive product line with low costs is one of the critical problems in this domain which demands to be satisfied. In this paper a method is presented which can manage and control complexities of component selection problem, an NP problem, and result in creation of declared product line. By making use of this method, a product line will be constructed with suitably-adopted components to cover up requirements based on architecture; that’s why software product line development process will enhance in reducing risks and costs of development.