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Towards Modeling Data Variability in Software Product Lines

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2011, EMMSAD 2011)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 81))

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In this paper, we provide an approach for modeling data variability as part of the overall software product line modeling approach. Modeling data variability in software product lines allows tailoring the data to the variability of a product. For this purpose, we have extended our Feature Assembly Modeling technique with the concept of persistency feature. We explain how these persistency features can be used to express the data variability, how they can be created and how they relate to the other features of the software product line. We also show how to derive a so-called variable data model from these persistency features and how an actual data model for a product of the product line can be derived. Additionally, annotations provide traceability between the variability of the features and the variability in the data model.

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  1. WISE Lab, Computer Science Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Lamia Abo Zaid & Olga De Troyer

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  1. INTI International University, Malaysia

    Terry Halpin

  2. IAE de Paris Sorbonne Graduate Business School, 21, rue Broca, 75005, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

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Abo Zaid, L., De Troyer, O. (2011). Towards Modeling Data Variability in Software Product Lines. In: Halpin, T., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2011 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 81. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_33

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