Deriving Software Product Line's Architectural Requirements from Use Cases: an Experimental Approach

One of the most important artifacts of a product line is the product line architecture. In this paper we present an approach for deriving a product line’s architecture from the requirements of the product line. This approach is based on a transformational technique that has been developed and applied to obtain system architectures from requirements specified as UML use cases. In this paper we evaluate if such a technique can be applied to product lines and, if so, what adaptations are required. For presentation purposes we use the public available IESE report of the GoPhone product line that uses the UML modeling language