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Expression and Usage of the Variability in the Software Product Lines

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Software Product-Family Engineering (PFE 2001)

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Abstract

Software product lines are used by companies to provide a set of reusable software assets sharing common features that satisfy a market. Though a product line is based on the expression and the capitalization of afamily of similar systems, the differences between products must be identified and expressed in order to be able to build the applications by taking the good decisions. Today, even if the flexibility aspects are well covered, there isn’t as many studies on variability description and usage. This paper presents a process, methods and techniques investigated in THALES (Research Center and Business Units) to express the variability between products and its usage to derive new products from the Software product line.

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  1. Corporate Research Laboratories, THALES, Domaine de Corbeville, 1404, Orsay Cedex, France

    Serge Salicki & Nicolas Farcet

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  1. Philips Medical Systems Nederland B.V., Veenpluis 4-6, 5684, PC Best, The Netherlands

    Frank van der Linden

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Salicki, S., Farcet, N. (2002). Expression and Usage of the Variability in the Software Product Lines. In: van der Linden, F. (eds) Software Product-Family Engineering. PFE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47833-7_27

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