KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHOD FOR BUILDING A SOFTWARE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

A method for building a software configuration from its model and requ irements describing its properties is proposed. Our model of software systems reflects architectural and development-induced relations among component families and variants. The method builds a generic configur ation first and then progresses to building a bound one. In building b oth of these, a method for version selection plays an important role. It is controlled by heuristics supplied by a software engineer. The pa per presents both methods. It also presents results of the experimenta l evaluation of the method for version control. The results support th e authors' hypothesis that more selective filters are to be preferred in order to increase efficiency.