Modeling E-Commerce Systems- An Application of Generative Software Development Techniques

The pervasiveness and criticality of software applications in modern timeshave resulted in the demand for highly customized high quality products in atimely and cost-efficient manner. Research in the area of Generative SoftwareDevelopment (GSD) aims to satisfy this demand. Model-Driven Software ProductLines (MDSPL) is a GSD approach to software development which allowsdevelopers to automatically build such products based on configurationknowledge and reusable assets.This book provides an introduction to the GSD approach and shows how itcan be applied to model e-commerce systems; the intricate number offeatures and their interactions as well as their applicability in the moderneconomy makes e-commerce systems the ideal domain for this study. Thereader will gain a better understanding of the domain engineering process aswe strive to define and build the reusable assets which can be used to createhundreds of variations of e-commerce systems. This book is intended forsoftware researchers and practitioners who are interested in exploring andapplying cutting-edge software engineering techniques as well as readerswho are interested in e-commerce systems in general.