TOWARDS FAMILY EVOLUTION OF CNC SYSTEMS

AbstractA low-cost alternative to software development in many domains is the construction of software family infrastructures. Instead of developing one system at a time, the software families approach focuses on creating an infrastructure of software components and configuration tools to construct application systems from a specification. The approach to implement software families for constructing component-based CNC and systems has been demonstrated. However, as any other system, software family infrastructures need to be evolved to add new components or constraints to the infrastructure. This paper presents an approach for software family infrastructure evolution and its demonstration in an infrastructure for configuring a software family of CNC systems.