Comparing Feature Diagram Examples Found in the Research Literature

@techreport{citeulike:2718362, abstract = {Motivation: Feature Diagrams (FD) are widely used in software product line engineering [PBL05] to document variability. In general, a FD is a tree or a directed acyclic graph that serves as a compact representation of all valid combina-tions of its nodes. Those nodes (except the root node) are usually called fea-tures. The root node is called the “concept”. In software product line engineering, two kinds of variability can be distin-guished: Software variability and PL variability. • Software variability refers to the “ability of a software system or arte-fact to be efficiently extended, changed, customized or configured for use in a particular context” [SGB05]. • PL variability is specific to SPLE and describes the variation between the systems that belong to a PL [CHW98, PBL05, KLD02] in terms of properties and qualities, like features that are provided or require-ments that are fulfilled. It is important to understand that defining PL variability, i.e. determining what should vary between the systems in a PL and what should not, is an explicit decision of product manage-ment (see [KLD02, PBL05]). This tech report presents a collection of feature diagrams that we have found in the research literature with the aim of determining from those feature dia-grams, which kind of variability has been documented. There are many FD dialects. Besides a collection of examples, this tech re-port also gives an overview of those various dialects and the concrete syn-taxes (notations) they employ.}, author = {Metzger, Andreas and Heymans, Patrick }, citeulike-article-id = {2718362}, howpublished = {Technical Report 2007-01}, institution = {Software Systems Engineering University of Duisburg-Essen}, keywords = {diagram, feature, line, modeling, product, software}, month = {February}, posted-at = {2008-04-25 13:54:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Comparing Feature Diagram Examples Found in the Research Literature}, url = {http://www.sse.uni-due.de/paper/TR-01-07.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - RPRT ID - citeulike:2718362 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2718362 TI - Comparing Feature Diagram Examples Found in the Research Literature N2 - Motivation: Feature Diagrams (FD) are widely used in software product line engineering [PBL05] to document variability. In general, a FD is a tree or a directed acyclic graph that serves as a compact representation of all valid combina-tions of its nodes. Those nodes (except the root node) are usually called fea-tures. The root node is called the “concept”. In software product line engineering, two kinds of variability can be distin-guished: Software variability and PL variability. • Software variability refers to the “ability of a software system or arte-fact to be efficiently extended, changed, customized or configured for use in a particular context” [SGB05]. • PL variability is specific to SPLE and describes the variation between the systems that belong to a PL [CHW98, PBL05, KLD02] in terms of properties and qualities, like features that are provided or require-ments that are fulfilled. It is important to understand that defining PL variability, i.e. determining what should vary between the systems in a PL and what should not, is an explicit decision of product manage-ment (see [KLD02, PBL05]). This tech report presents a collection of feature diagrams that we have found in the research literature with the aim of determining from those feature dia-grams, which kind of variability has been documented. There are many FD dialects. Besides a collection of examples, this tech re-port also gives an overview of those various dialects and the concrete syn-taxes (notations) they employ. KW - diagram KW - feature KW - line KW - modeling KW - product KW - software AU - Metzger, Andreas AU - Heymans, Patrick PY - 2007/02// UR - http://www.sse.uni-due.de/paper/TR-01-07.pdf ER -