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Managing feature models with familiar: a demonstration of the language and its tool support

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Philippe Collet,

Philippe Lahire,

Robert B. FranceAuthors Info & Claims

VaMoS '11: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems

Pages 91 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1145/1944892.1944903

Published: 27 January 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Developing software product lines involves modeling a large number of features, usually using feature models, that represent different viewpoints, sub-systems or concerns of the software system. To manage complexity on a large scale, there is a need to separate, relate and compose several feature models while automating the reasoning on their compositions. This demonstration gives an overview of a Domain-Specific Language, familiar, that is dedicated to the management of feature models. Its comprehensive programming environment, based on Eclipse, is also described. It complements existing tool support (i.e., FeatureIDE).

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Managing feature models with familiar: a demonstration of the language and its tool support
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
      2. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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VaMoS '11: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems

January 2011

174 pages

ISBN:9781450305709

DOI:10.1145/1944892

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Patrick Heymans
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University of Waterloo, Canada
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University of Leipzig, Germany

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