Lattix Introduces New Approach at The SEI Software Product Line Conference

Boston , MA , 1 September 2004.  Today Lattix demonstrated a new technique based on dependency models for understanding and managing large complex software systems. Lattix is the first to commercially apply Design Structure Matrices (DSM) to represent complex software systems.  DSM is particularly useful for modeling software product line architectures because it is built around a precise decomposition of a system into its components. The simplicity and compactness of DSMs also makes it easy for stakeholders to visualize the overall architecture.

Lattix demonstrated its new Lattix LDM product to build the Dependency Model for ANT, a widely used open source build tool.  Using Lattix LDM, Lattix illustrated the evolution of its architecture and identified how subsystem coupling frequently increases over time. Most importantly, Lattix showed how design rules may be applied to enforce the design intentions underlying the application architecture.