Pragmatic strategies for variability management in software product lines

Authors:
Stan Jarzabek
Affiliations:
School of Computing, National Univeristy of Singapore, Singapore
Venue:
ICSR'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Top productivity through software reuse
Year:
2011

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Abstract

After general introduction to Software Product Lines (SPL), we focus on variability management, a key technical challenge for effective reuse. We discuss reasons why commonly used variation techniques (pre-processing, configuration files) do not scale well. We present merits (visibility of feature impact on core assets, automation of product derivation, support for evolution and scalability), and trade-offs (need for skilful design and training) in applying uniform variation technique, design specifically to manage variability in SPLs.