Capturing Timeline Variability With Transparent Configuration Environments

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E. Dolstra, G. Florijn, M. de Jonge and E. Visser. *Capturing Timeline Variability with Transparent Configuration Environments.* In [[http://se.mm.fh-mannheim.de/Events/2003/ICSE-SVM/index.shtml][International Workshop on Software Variability Management]], Portland, Oregon, USA, May 2003. ([[http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/eelco/pubs/ctvtce-icse-svm-final.pdf][pdf]])

----+++ 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.

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