Component reconfiguration tool for software product lines with XML technology

A Paradigm of software product lines is to facilitate more strategic reuse by predicting and analyzing the variabilities and commonalities among the members of software family at early stage of software lifecycle. This paper proposes an automatic component reconfiguration tool that could be applied in constructing the component-based software product lines. Our tool accepts the reuser's requirement via a feature model and makes the feature configuration from which it generates the source code of the reconfigured component. The component family in our tool should have the architecture of GenVoca, and XSLT scripts provide the code templates for implementation elements. Taking the 'Bank Account' component family as our example, we showed that our tool produced automatically the component source code that the reuser wants to create. The result of this paper should be applied extensively for increasing the productivity of building the software product lines.