Engr 660: Software Engineering II
(Software Product Lines)
Fall 2003
Lecture Notes

Papers Discussed

• Classic papers by David Parnas. In addition to the references listed below, these are reprinted in the book:
  D. M. Hoffman and D. M. Weiss, Editors. Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L. Parnas, Addison-Wesley, 2001.

  • D. L. Parnas. "On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 12, pp. 1053-1058, December 1972.
    (Chapter 7 of Software Fundamentals.)

  • D. L. Parnas. "On the Design and Development of Program Families," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-2, No. 1, pp. 1-9, March 1976.
    (Chapter 10 of Software Fundamentals.)

  • D. L. Parnas. "Designing Software for Ease of Extension and Contraction," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-5, No. 1, pp. 128-138, March 1979.
    (Chapter 14 of Software Fundamentals.)

  • K. H. Britton, R. A. Parker, and D. L. Parnas. "A Procedure for Designing Abstract Interfaces for Device Interface Modules," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 195-204, March 1981.
    (Chapter 15 of Software Fundamentals.)

  • D. L. Parnas, P. C. Clements, and D. M. Weiss. "The Modular Structure of Complex Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-11, No. 3, pp. 259-266, March 1985.
    (Chapter 16 of Software Fundamentals.)

• D. Garlan, R. Allen, and J. Ockerbloom. "Architectural Mismatch: Why Reuse is So Hard," IEEE Software, Vol. 12, No. 6, November 1995.
  Instructor's Notes on Architectural Mismatch.

• E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software," Addison-Wesley, 1995.

  • "Introduction," Chapter 1, pages 1-31.

  • "Strategy," Part of Chapter 5 on "Behavioral Patterns," pages 315-324.

  • "Template Method," Part of Chapter 5 on "Behavioral Patterns," pages 325-330.

• H. C. Cunningham, Y. Liu, and C. Zhang. "Using the Divide and Conquer Strategy to Teach Software Frameworks and Patterns,", Submitted to a conference, December 2003.

• H. C. Cunningham and J. Wang. Building a Layered Framework for the Table Abstraction , In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, March 2001. [Presentation]

  Variant paper: H. C. Cunningham and J. Wang. Applying Software Patterns in the Design of a Table Framework, In Proceedings of the Conference on Applied Research in Data Engineering, Acxiom Data Engineering Laboratory, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, November 2001. ADEL-WP-01-01.

• Hans Albrecht Schmid. "Framework Design by Systematic Generalization", In Mohamed E. Fayad and Ralph E. Johnson, Editors, Domain-Specific Application Frameworks, Wiley, 2000.

• Ralph E. Johnson and Brian Foote. "Designing Reusable Classes", Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Vol. 1, No. 2, pages 22-35, June/July 1988. Also available as http://www.laputan.org/drc/drc.html.

• Mark Ardis, Nigel Daley, Daniel Hoffman, Harvey Siy, and David Weiss. "Software Product Lines: A Case Study," Software Practice and Experience, Vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 825-847.2000.

Useful Reference Materials

• H. C. Cunningham, C. Zhang, and Y. Liu. Keeping secrets within a family: Rediscovering Parnas, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practicee (SERP), pp. 712-718, CSREA Press, June 2004.

• From Software Architecture (ENGR 691) class, Spring 2004. [lecture notes]

• Lecture Notes on Data Abstraction.
  Supplementary notes: Queue ADT

• ADT Case Study: Ranked Sequence

• Introduction to Object Orientation.

Items for Possible Future Use

• S. Vazhkudai and H. C. Cunningham. A Reusable Framework for Distributed Decision-making Protocols, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'2000), Las Vegas, CSREA Press, June 2000.

• Hans Albrecht Schmid. "Creating Applications From Components: A Manufacturing Framework Design," IEEE Software, Vol. 13, No. 6, November 1997.

• Hans Albrecht Schmid. "OSEFA: Framework for Manufacturing", In Mohamed E. Fayad, Douglas C. Schmidt, and Ralph E. Johnson, Editors, Building Application Frameworks: Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design, Wiley, 1999.

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