GPCE WS1: First Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Product Line Engineering (AOPLE)

Sunday, Oct 22, 08:30 to 17:00, E121

Website: http://www.softeng.ox.ac.uk/aople/ 

Product Line Engineering (PLE) is an increasingly important paradigm in software development whereby commonalities and variations among similar systems are systematically identified and exploited.

PLE covers a large spectrum of activities, from domain analysis to product validation and testing. Variability is manifested throughout this spectrum in artifacts such as models, requirements, code and components and it is often of crosscutting nature. These characteristics make Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques appealing as suitable candidates to modularize variability.

Work on Generative Programming (GP) and Component Engineering (CE) has shown the crucial role they play in PLE and the potential benefits of its synergy with AOSD.

This workshop aims at expanding and capitalizing on the increasing interest of researchers from these communities. The main goal of the workshop is to share and discuss ideas, identify research opportunities and foster collaboration to tackle the challenges these opportunities may bring about.

Neil Loughran
Iris Groher
Roberto Lopez-Herrejon