BOM-Lazy: A Variability-Driven Framework for Software Applications Production Using Model Transformation Techniques

This paper presents Baseline Oriented Modeling– Lazy (BOM–Lazy): an approach to develop applications in a domain, Expert Systems, by means of Software Product Lines and model transformations techniques. A domain analysis has been done on the variability of Expert Systems that perform diagnostic tasks in order to determine the general and individual features, (i.e. common and variants features) of these systems. The variability of our Software Product Line is managed by means of models and model transformations; and the Production Plan is automatically generated and driven by the variability model and the core assets (the generic architecture) of the domain, in order to produce the base architecture of the Software Product Line. Keywords-Software Product Lines; Variability Management; Model Transformations; Software Architectures; Diagnostic Expert Systems