Proceedings for First Workshop on Aspect - oriented Product Line Engineering

The Product Line Architecture is the most important asset of a Product Line. The Product Line Architecture defines not only the product line quality attributes but also encompasses the capability of reuse, product derivation, and product line evolution. Aspect­Oriented approaches seek proper separation of concerns in order to obtain evolvable, maintainable, comprehensible, customizable and reusable software. Current Product Line Architecture and Aspect­Oriented Software Architecture methods are assessed considering those characteristics that a product line architecture must fulfill as well as the aspect­oriented software architecture’s characteristics. The results from this effort will provide the basis for the development of an Aspect­ Oriented Product Line Architecture approach. The objective is the proper identification, separation, and modeling of a PLA’s crosscutting concerns.