A behavioural model for product families

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Fantechi;Stefania Gnesi

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy;ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • The 6th Joint Meeting on European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on the foundations of software engineering: companion papers
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a behavioural model, namely the Extended Modal Labeled Transition Systems, as a basis for the formalization of the different notions of variability usually present in product families definitions. In particular, an EMLTS is able to define a family of products by telling at any state of the system whether transitions are optional or compulsory for the products of the family. Based on this model, verification that a product belongs to a family can be carried out by means of automatic tools.