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We present VMC, a tool for the modeling and analysis of variability in product lines. It accepts a product family specified as a modal transition system, possibly with additional variability constraints, after which it can automatically generate all the family’s valid products, visualize the family/products as modal/labeled transition systems, and efficiently model check properties expressed in an action- and state-based branching-time temporal logic over products and families alike.
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ter Beek, M.H., Mazzanti, F., Sulova, A. (2012). VMC: A Tool for Product Variability Analysis. In: Giannakopoulou, D., Méry, D. (eds) FM 2012: Formal Methods. FM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7436. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32759-9_36
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