Developers and engineers have shown the many benefits of feature modelling for identifying reusable software and hardware components across product lines and platforms. However, a gap exists when it comes to identifying reusable products, and ...

State-of-the-art Product Line Engineering (PLE) tools, while powerful and supporting of significant PLE scenarios, generally lack support for EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework) models. The limited support is due not to insufficient adoption of EMF, but ...

System traceability from requirements to implementation is desirable, often mandatory, for complex and safety-critical system development. However, maintaining traceability documentation can be extremely taxing and tedious through iterative and ...

Nowadays, automotive systems are modelled as cyber-physical product lines. However, often it is not clear whether a modelled configuration can be realised as a physical product. The combination of software- and hardware-artefacts harbours the risk of non-...

For the development of the Extremely Large Telescope, the European Southern Observatory uses state machines to define life cycles and basic behavior of control software components. To provide certain degrees of freedom, the component life cycles need to ...

Adopting Product Line Engineering (PLE) approaches in the context of software-intensive systems reduces overall development and maintenance costs, reduces time to market and leads to an overall improvement in product quality. The Software and System ...

Adopting Product Line Engineering (PLE) approaches in the context of software-intensive systems reduces overall development and maintenance costs, reduces time to market and leads to an overall improvement in product quality. The Software and System ...

Product Line Engineering (PLE) enables strategic reuse within an organisation, thus reducing development costs, decreasing the time to market, and increasing product quality. As a core activity in PLE, variability management supports modelling of ...

Model-based product line engineering applies the reuse practices from product line engineering with graphical modeling for the specification of software intensive systems. Variability is usually described in separate variability models, while the ...

Software-intensive systems in the automotive domain are often built in different variants, notably in order to support different market segments and legislation regions. Model-based concepts are frequently applied to manage complexity in such variable ...

This paper describes a tutorial to introduce a product line engineering solution, including tools and methods, that is the subject of an upcoming ISO standard and known as "Feature-Based Systems and Software Product Line Engineering." This tutorial will ...

The growth in electrification and digitalization of vehicles leads to increasing variability and complexity of automotive systems. This poses new challenges for verification and validation, identified in a Product Line Engineering case study for the ...

Engineering Software Product Lines may be a strategy to reduce costs and efforts for developing software and increasing business productivity. However, it cannot be considered as a "silver bullet" that applies to all types of organizations. Companies ...

This paper describes a demonstration of the product line engineering tool and framework called Gears from BigLever Software. Gears is the automation at the heart of a PLE Factory, which itself is the conceptual construct at the heart of Feature-based ...

Safety cases are used to argue that safety-critical systems satisfy the requirements that are determined to mitigate the potential hazards in the systems operating environment. Although typically a manual task, safety cases have been successfully ...

This paper describes a demonstration of the product line engineering tool and framework Gears from BigLever Software. Gears provides a single feature modeling language, a single variation point mechanism that works across the entire product lifecycle, ...

This paper describes a tutorial to introduce a product line engineering solution, including tools and methods, that is the subject of an upcoming ISO standard and known as "Feature-Based Systems and Software Product Line Engineering." Its usage is ...

This paper describes a tutorial on an advanced set of product line engineering solutions, tools, and methods, which are being referred to as Second Generation Product Line Engineering (2GPLE).

This paper presents the new release of VariaMos, a Java-based tool for defining variability modeling languages, modeling (dynamic) product lines and cyber-physical self-adaptive systems, and supporting automated verification, analysis, configuration and ...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) product lines appear in a wide range of applications of different domains (e.g., car's doors' windows, doors of a lift, etc.). The variability of these systems is large and as a result they can be configured into plenty of ...