Software factories: assembling applications with patterns, models, frameworks and tools

ABSTRACT

The confluence of component based development, model driven development and software product lines forms an approach to application development based on the concept of software factories. This approach promises greater gains in productivity and predictability than those produced by incremental improvements to the current paradigm of object orientation, which have not kept pace with innovation in platform technology. Software factories promise to make application assembly more cost effective through systematic reuse, enabling the formation of supply chains and opening the door to mass customization.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
        D.2.11 Software Architectures
            Subjects: Domain-specific architectures; Languages (e.g., description, interconnection, definition); Patterns (e.g., client/server, pipeline, blackboard)
        D.2.13 Reusable Software
            Subjects: Domain engineering

General Terms:
Design, Languages

Keywords:
design patterns, domain-specific languages, model-driven development, software factories, software product lines