Abstract
Software Product Line development involves the explicit management
of variability that has to be encompassed by the software artifacts, in particular
by the software architecture. Architectural variability has to be not only supported
by the architecture but also explicitly represented. The Common Variability
Language (CVL) allows to represent such variability independently of the Architecture
Description Language (ADL) and to support the resolution of this variability
for the automatic derivation of AADL product architectures. This paper
presents a multimodel approach to represent the relationships between the external
variability, represented by a feature model, and the architectural variability,
represented by the CVL model, for the automatic derivation of AADL product
architectures through model transformations. These transformations take into account
functional and non-functional requirements.
