Flexible and scalable consistency checking on product line variability models
Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
A flexible approach for generating product-specific documents in product lines
SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
Key activities for product derivation in software product lines
Journal of Systems and Software
The DOPLER meta-tool for decision-oriented variability modeling: a multiple case study
Automated Software Engineering
Product line bundles for tool support in multi product lines
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
Using constraint programming to verify DOPLER variability models
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
ISA packager: a tool for SPL deployment
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
Supporting business calculations in a product line engineering tool suite
Proceedings of the 15th International Software Product Line Conference, Volume 2
A qualitative study on user guidance capabilities in product configuration tools
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Using regression testing to analyze the impact of changes to variability models on products
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1
A survey of variability modeling in industrial practice
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
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Developers of software engineering tools are facing high expectations regarding capabilities and usability. Users expect tools tailored to their specific needs and integrated in their working environment. This increases tools' complexity and complicates their customization and deployment despite available mechanisms for adaptability and extensibility. A main challenge lies in understanding and managing the dependencies between different technical mechanisms for realizing tool variability. We report on industrial experiences of applying a model-based and tool-supported product line approach for the customization and deployment of two Eclipse-based tools. We illustrate challenges of customizing these tools to different development contexts: In the first case study we developed variability models of a product line tool suite used by an industry partner and utilized these models for tool customization and deployment. In the second case study we applied the same approach to a maintenance and setup tool of our industry partner. Our experiences suggest to design software tools as product lines; to formally describe the tools' variability in models; and to provide end-user capabilities for customizing and deploying the tools.