An Approach to Implement SPL Composed of Interconnected Applications and to Deploy them to the Cloud

Abstract

Software product lines (SPL) are a systematic reuse technique that both academy and industry have been using in recent years. The main idea is to generate different software products through the reuse of a set of assets. Dif-ferent authors have proposed different approaches and techniques to the construction and maintenance of these assets. However, most of these ap-proaches are designed to support the development of standalone applica-tions, and there is not support for a product deployment. In a previous work, we developed fragment-oriented programming (FragOP), which is a frame-work used to design, implement, and reuse SPL assets. And a tool called VariaMos which supports FragOP. In this work, we enhanced VariaMos and FragOP to support the definition of SPL composed of interconnected appli-cations and automate the deployment of the generated applications to the Cloud. Finally, we developed a running example (a ToDo SPL) to show some preliminary results of the new approach.