A multi-level approach for supporting configurations: A new perspective on software product line engineering

Ulrich Frank; Iris Reinhartz-Berger; Arnon Sturm; Tony Clark

A multi-level approach for supporting configurations: A new perspective on software product line engineering

Ulrich Frank, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Arnon Sturm, Tony Clark

Department of Information Systems

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Abstract

Configuration is a common way in many markets to cope with reducing costs and improving customer satisfaction. There are various approaches to represent product configurations, the most common of which is feature modeling. However, feature models suffer from principal limitations, including ambiguity and lack of abstraction, increasing maintainability effort and limiting lifecycle support. In this paper, we suggest using a multi-level modeling approach to improve flexibility, reuse, and integrity and demonstrate the advantages of the approach over feature modeling.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	170-178
Number of pages	9
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	1979
State	Published - 2017
Event	ER Forum and the ER Demo Track, ER-Forum-Demos 2017 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 6 Nov 2017 → 9 Nov 2017

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© 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Keywords

Configuration
Domain Specific Modelling Languages
Feature Modeling
Multi-Level Modelling
Software Product Line Engineering
Variability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Computer Science

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