Web-services reference architecture for software product lines: A quality-driven approach

Software Products Lines (SPL) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) are two approaches for software development used in industrial practice favouring reuse of existing assets and capabilities, rather than redevelop new systems. The main goal of this work is to exploit benefits from both approaches and integrate them into a unique architectural design process WSRA-SPL (Web-Services Reference Architecture for SPL), centred on software quality assurance in early steps of the software development lifecycl