VAMOS

What is CVL - the standardization initiative on variability modeling in OMG? As initiator and organizer of this initiative Ø. Haugen will talk about what CVL is, what the language status is, and what will happen next. He will argue why CVL will be ...

Software systems are increasingly request to evolve during their life time. Evolutions cannot always be anticipated or it might not be convenient to anticipate all possible system changes. This introduces levels of uncertainty in the predictable ...

A software ecosystem (SECO) encompasses a set of interdependent software systems where individual products are created by combining a common software platform with variable extensions. Examples are the SECOs surrounding Eclipse or Android. Due to ...

Modern cars exist in an vast number of variants. Thus, variability has to be dealt with in all phases of the development process, in particular during model-based development of software-intensive functionality using Matlab/Simulink. Currently, ...

Feature-oriented software development is a software development paradigm that uses "features" as the first class objects in designing program instead of objects as with the object-orientation. Most of researches on feature-oriented software development ...

Software product-line engineering aims at developing families of related products that share common assets to provide customers with tailor-made products. Customers are often interested not only in particular functionalities (i.e., features), but also ...

Over more than two decades, numerous variability modeling techniques have been introduced in academia and industry. However, little is known about the actual use of these techniques. While dozens of experience reports on software product line ...

There have been several proposals to describe the variability of software product lines by using modeling languages. In larger organizations or projects (e.g., multi product line environments) this can lead to a situation where multiple variability ...

Feature models specify valid combinations of features in software product lines. With dependent feature models (DFMs), we apply separation of concerns to feature models for two main benefits. First, we can modularize feature models into parts relevant ...

Variability management is an important issue for the software-intensive systems domain. Such an issue is essential for the success of software product line (SPL) adoption strategies. Although it is a well-discussed subject in the SPL community, there is ...

Software-language engineering is gaining momentum in research and practice, but it faces many challenges regarding language evolution, reuse, and variation. We propose language families, a feature-oriented approach to language engineering inspired by ...

Run-time adaptability is a key feature of dynamic business environments, where the processes need to be constantly refined and restructured to deal with context changes. In this paper, we present CAptLang, a language to model context-aware and adaptable ...

The choice calculus, a formal language for representing variation in software artifacts, features syntactic forms to map dimensions of variability to local choices between source code variants. However, the process of selecting alternatives from ...

Product-line analysis has received considerable attention in the last decade. As it is often infeasible to analyze each product of a product line individually, researchers have developed analyses, called variability-aware analyses, that consider and ...

Feature Models are widely used in some domains to represent variabilities and support decisions that configure a specific combination of domain elements. A feature configuration is created by selecting a features set that satisfies constraints imposed ...

Combinatorial Interaction Testing has shown great potential for effectively testing Software Product Lines (SPLs). An important part of this type of testing is determining a subset of SPL products in which interaction errors are more likely to occur. ...

In this paper, we develop a vision of software evolution based on a feature-oriented perspective. From the fact that features provide a common ground to all stakeholders, we derive a hypothesis that changes can be effectively managed in a feature-...

In order to increase the level of efficiency and automation, we propose a conceptual model and corresponding tool support to plan and manage the systematic evolution of software-intensive systems, in particular software product lines (SPL). We support ...

As a Software Product Line (SPL) evolves with increasing number of features and feature values, the feature correlations become extremely intricate, and the specifications of these correlations tend to be either incomplete or inconsistent with their ...

Feature Models (FMs) are a popular formalism for modelling and reasoning about commonality and variability of a system. In essence, FMs aim to define a set of valid combinations of features, also called configurations. In this paper, we tackle the ...

Due to increase in market competition and merger and acquisition of companies, different software product lines (SPLs) may exist under the same roof. These SPLs may be developed applying different domain analysis processes, but are likely not disjoint. ...