Staged configuration through specialization and multilevel configuration of feature models

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-169

  Czarnecki, Krzysztof ^a   Helsen, Simon ^b   Eisenecker, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Interactive Objects Software GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domain analysis; Software configuration; Software product lines; System families

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; GRAPH THEORY; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RISKS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES; SYSTEM FAMILIES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 20744438189     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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