SPL @ ECMDA 2009

In June (23rd – 26th) 2009 there will be the “Fifth European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications”  in Enschede, The Netherlands. Since not only I believe that the combination of model-driven development and product line development is the next big thing in software development, there will be some activities related to SPL at this conference. First of all, there will a dedicated workshop about this topic, the MDPLE workshop on the 24th. There will also be a paper presentation  “Managing Flexibility: Modeling Binding-Times in Simulink”. Incidentally this paper was authored by Jens Weiland, Reutlingen University, and me 🙂 and talks about our ideas for implementation of binding times in the MATLAB/Simulink tool chain (this stuff will be shortly available in pure::variants). I am also quite sure that some other talks will touch upon SPL topics. One interesting idea is for instance the idea presented in this work: “Enabling Automated Traceability Maintenance Through the Upkeep of Traceability Relations” by Mäder et al. They try to use automatic rule based detection of changes in artifacts, which initiate (semi-)automatic update of the trace relations. And there will be a pure::variants demonstration showing how to integrate pure::variants feature modeling and  model-based development with UML and Simulink.