Model Driven Architecture for KobrA

Abstract

Software Product Lines (SPL) are families of software systems that share common functionality, where each member has variable functionality. The main goal of SPL is the rapid development of member systems by using reusable assets from all phases of the development life cycle. The SPL approves the ability of increasing the productivity and reduces time and costs of developing products.But still there is a lack of high level of automation in many SPL methods such as KobrA. On other hand the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is new automation approach for software development introduced with main goal of decrease the cost of development and increase the quality of the product where models are first class. This research presents a reengineering approach to KobrA which brings high degree of automation and reuse . Specific metamodels is developed and some concepts are borrowed from the powerful UML metamodel. The result shows its rich machinery for adding value to KobrA.