Knowledge based method for building a software system configuration

摘要

A method for building a software configuration from its model and requirements describing its properties is proposed. Our model of software systems reflects architectural and development-induced relations among component families and variants. The method builds a generic configuration first and then progresses to building a bound one. In building both of these, a method for version selection plays an important role. It is controlled by heuristics supplied by a software engineer. The paper presents both methods. It also presents results of the experimental evaluation of the method for version control. The results support the authors' hypothesis that more selective filters are to be preferred in order to increase efficiency.