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Families of systems are prevalent in software engineering, and many techniques are available for the analysis and implementation of such families. Embedded systems families provide additional constraints on these techniques, and safety-critical systems families constrain them even further. An existing family analysis technique is combined with a layering scheme to structure the selection of variations and the introduction of detail within those constraints. Application of this new technique produces software which is specified and configured during development, within a fixed execution architecture which reflects the common aspects of systems within that family.
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Stephenson, A., Buttle, D., McDermid, J. (2000). Extending Commonality Analysis for Embedded Control System Families. In: van der Linden, F. (eds) Software Architectures for Product Families. IW-SAPF 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1951. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44542-5_24
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