Propagating changes from one place in a product line architecture to another is a difficult problem that occurs in a variety of settings. Currently, no automated tools exist that help an architect in doing so, and performing the task by hand in the face of a large product line architecture can be error-prone and difficult. To address this problem, we have built a set of tools for automating the process. Our approach breaks down into a two-step solution: (1) automatically determining the difference between two selected (versions of) a product architecture, and (2) automatically merging the difference back into a different location in the original product line architecture. In this paper, we detail each of these two steps and evaluate our solution on an example word processor product line architecture. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.
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Chen, P., Critchlow, M., Garg, A., Van Der Westhuizen, C., & Van Der Hoek, A. (2004). Differencing and merging within an evolving product line architecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 3014, 269–281. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24667-1_20
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