Managing variability in software architectures
SSR '01 Proceedings of the 2001 symposium on Software reusability: putting software reuse in context
A comprehensive product line scoping approach and its validation
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
On the Notion of Variability in Software Product Lines
WICSA '01 Proceedings of the Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
A customizable approach to full lifecycle variability management
Science of Computer Programming - Special issue: Software variability management
Using variability modeling principles to capture architectural knowledge
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Systematic pattern selection using pattern language grammars and design space analysis
Software—Practice & Experience
Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering
Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering
On the Role of Architectural Design Decisions in Software Product Line Engineering
ECSA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
Questions, options, and criteria: elements of design space analysis
Human-Computer Interaction
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QoSA'07 Proceedings of the Quality of software architectures 3rd international conference on Software architectures, components, and applications
Multi-dimensional variability modeling
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
From feature models to decision models and back again an analysis based on formal transformations
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1
WICSA-ECSA '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and European Conference on Software Architecture
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In software product line engineering, the design of assets for reuse and the derivation of software products entails low-level and high-level decision making. In this process, two major types of decisions must be addressed: variability decisions, i.e., decisions made as part of variability management, and architectural decisions, i.e., fundamental decisions to be made during the design of the architecture of the product line or the products. In practice, variability decisions often overlap with or influence architectural decisions. For instance, resolving a variability may enable or prevent some architectural options. This inherent interdependence has not been explicitly and systematically targeted in the literature, and therefore, is mainly resolved in an ad hoc and informal manner today. In this paper, we discuss possible ways how variability and architectural decisions interact, as well as their management and integration in a systematic manner. We demonstrate the integration between the two types of decisions in a motivating case and leverage existing tools for implementing our proposal.