Extraction of feature models from formal contexts

  • Authors:
  • Uwe Ryssel;Joern Ploennigs;Klaus Kabitzsch

  • Affiliations:
  • Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany;Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany;Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th International Software Product Line Conference, Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

For economical reasons, the creation of feature oriented software should include previously created products and should not be done from scratch. To speed up this migration process, feature models have to be generated automatically from existing product variants. This work presents an approach based on formal concept analysis that analyzes incidence matrices containing matching relations as input and creates feature models as output. The resulting feature models describe exactly the given input variants. The introduced novel optimized approach performs this transformation in reasonable time even for large product libraries.