Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques
Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles and Techniques
Change-oriented software engineering
ICDL '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Dynamic languages: in conjunction with the 15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference 2007
Reasoning about edits to feature models
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
From software product lines to software ecosystems
Proceedings of the 13th International Software Product Line Conference
Automated analysis of feature models 20 years later: A literature review
Information Systems
Delta-oriented programming of software product lines
SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
Evolution of the linux kernel variability model
SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
Modeling rationale over time to support product line evolution planning
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
Co-evolution of models and feature mapping in software product lines
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1
Multi-perspectives on feature models
MODELS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Towards modeling and analyzing variability in evolving software ecosystems
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
Feature-oriented software evolution
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
Model-driven planning and monitoring of long-term software product line evolution
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
Coevolution of variability models and related artifacts: a case study from the Linux kernel
Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference
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Software product lines (SPLs) and software ecosystems (SECOs) are approaches to capturing families of closely related software systems in terms of common and variable functionality. SPLs and especially SECOs are subject to evolution to adapt to new or changed requirements resulting in different versions of the software family and its variable assets. These versions may have to be maintained and used for products even after they were superseded by newer versions. Variability models describing valid combinations of variable assets, such as feature models, capture variability in space (configuration), but not variability in time (evolution) making it impossible to respect versions of variable assets in product definitions on a conceptual level. In this paper, we propose Hyper Feature Models (HFMs) explicitly providing feature versions as configurable units for product definition. Furthermore, we provide a version-aware constraint language to specify dependencies between features and ranges of feature versions as well as a procedure to automatically select valid combinations of versions for a pre-configuration of features. We demonstrate our approach in a case study.