Paper Capturing Timeline Variability

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Abstract

Virtually every non-trivial software system exhibits variability: the property that the set of features --characteristics of the system that are relevant to some stakeholder-- can be changed at certain points in the system's deployment life-cycle. Some features can be bound only at specific moments in the life-cycle, while some can be bound at several distinct moments (timeline variability). This leads to inconsistent configuration interfaces; variability decisions are generally made through different interfaces depending on the moment in the life-cycle. In this paper we propose to formalize variability into a feature model that takes timeline issues into account and to derive from such feature models configuration interfaces that abstract over the life-cycle.

BibTeX entry

@InProceedings{DFJV2003,
  author    = "E. Dolstra and G. Florijn and de Jonge, M. and E. Visser",
  title     = {Capturing Timeline Variability with Transparent Configuration
              Environments},
  booktitle = "Proceedings: {ICSE} Workshop on Software Variability Management",
  year      = 2003,
  month     = may,
  publisher = "ACM",
  url       = base_url # "PaperCapturingTimelineVariability"
}

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-- MerijnDeJonge - 06 Apr 2003