Developing Families of Method-Oriented Architecture

摘要

The method engineering paradigm is motivated by the need for software development methods suitable for specific situations and requirements of organizations in general and projects in particular. Assembly-based method engineering, as one of the prominent approaches in method engineering, creates project-specific methods by (re-)using method components, specified with method processes and products, and stored in method repositories. This paper tries to address the two challenges of assembly-based method engineering related to more effective: i) publication and sharing of method components; and ii) management of variability in software methods, which have many commonalties. In order to address these two challenges, we propose the concept of Families of Method-Oriented Architectures. This concept is built on top of the principles of service-oriented architectures and software product lines.