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Towards a Conceptual Model for Unifying Variability in Space and Time

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Sofia Ananieva,

Andreas Burger,

Gabriele Taentzer,

Bernhard WestfechtelAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B

Pages 44 - 48

https://doi.org/10.1145/3307630.3342412

Published: 09 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Effectively managing variability in space and time is among the main challenges of developing and maintaining large-scale yet long-living software-intensive systems. Over the last decades, two large research fields, Software Configuration Management (SCM) and Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE), have focused on version management and the systematic handling of variability, respectively. However, neither research community has been successful in producing unified management techniques that are effective in practice, and both communities have developed largely independently of each other. As a step towards overcoming this unfortunate situation, in this paper, we report on ongoing work on conceiving a conceptual yet integrated model of SCM and SPLE concepts, originating from a recent Dagstuhl seminar on the unification of version and variant management. Our goal is to provide discussion grounds for a wider exploration of a unified methodology supporting software evolution in both space and time.

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SPLC '19: Proceedings of the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B

September 2019

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ISBN:9781450366687

DOI:10.1145/3307630

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