Freeing product line architectures from execution dependencies

Abstract

In 1995, an initiative was launched at McDonnel Douglas to assess the potential for reuse of operational flight program (OFP) software across multiple fighter aircraft platforms, and to define and demonstrate a supporting system architecture. This article focuses on selected aspects of the physical architecture resulting from that work. First, it briefly restates principle results from the previously published work to set the context for discussion. Then, it defines goals of software physical architecture particularly relevant to product line development and discusses solutions toward achieving these goals.