Towards multi-view feature-based configuration

Abstract

[Context & motivation] Variability models, feature diagrams ahead, have become commonplace in software product line engineering as a means to document variability early in the lifecycle. Over the years though, their application span has been extended to aid stakeholders in the configuration of software products. [Question/problem] However, current feature-based configuration techniques hardly support the tailoring of configuration views to the profiles of heterogeneous stakeholders. [Principal ideas/results] In this paper, we introduce a lightweight mechanism to leverage multidimensional separation of concerns in feature-based configuration. [Contribution] We propose a technique to specify concerns in feature diagrams and to build automatically concern-specific configuration views, which come with three alternative visualisations. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.