Transformational Variability Modeling Approach to Configurable Business System Application
Marcel Fouda, Amougou Ngoumou · InTech eBooks · 2012
For more than ten years now, adaptation of software systems has become a major challenge for the software engineering community which has proposed different reference architectures and systematic approaches to address this challenging research topic. In the literature, the concept of adaptability is very broad and has many unclear and inconsistent definitions, with many closed-related types of non functional requirements such as flexibility, evolvability, transformability, reusability, robustness, configurability, etc. (see (Subramanian & Chung, 2001a) for a sample of representative definitions). This broad nature of adaptability makes it critical in practice since one of the problems in dealing with it is to give a clear and non ambiguous definition of adaptation and adaptability.