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Variant management solution for large scale software product lines

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Richard Pohl,

Mischa Höchsmann,

Philipp Wohlgemuth,

Christian TischerAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE-SEIP '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice

Pages 85 - 94

https://doi.org/10.1145/3183519.3183523

Published: 27 May 2018 Publication History

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Application lifecycle management for large scale software product lines (SPL) comes with the challenge to integrate distributed development activities across different parts of an organization and the engineering process in a tool landscape. Variant management is a cross-cutting concern that has interaction points with many of those integrated solutions. At Bosch, two different tools are used for variant management: pure::variants, a feature modeling tool for describing the feature-oriented product decomposition, and the custom tool MIC that offers a more comprehensive set of fine-grained variability management mechanisms. These include parameters, automated configurations or constraints. In turn, it is more suitable for component selection that is done close to the technology. In this experience report, we present a methodological approach on how to use the two tools with a technical integration solution we developed. Its purpose is to serve as an example for establishing successful variant management in large-scale product lines with respect to methodology and tools.

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Variant management solution for large scale software product lines
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
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ICSE-SEIP '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice

May 2018

336 pages

ISBN:9781450356596

DOI:10.1145/3183519

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Jan Bosch
Chalmers University of Technology

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