Abstract
To respond to environmental changes and customer specific requirements, industrial software systems must often incorporate many sources of variability. Developers use a diverse range of representations and techniques to achieve this, including structural variability, component version selection, conditional inclusion, and varying derivation processes.
This paper advocates specifying all potential variability within a system using a single formalism. PCL, the configuration language defined in the PROTEUS project, provides uniform facilities for expressing and controlling variability in all aspects of a system and its manufacturing process. PCL is supported by a comprehensive tool set and is integrated with several design methods. The paper uses a simple example throughout to illustrate the facilities of PCL and how these are supported by the tool set.
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Tryggeseth, E., Gulla, B., Conradi, R. (1995). Modelling systems with variability using the PROTEUS configuration language. In: Estublier, J. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM SCM 1993 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60578-9_20
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