A taxonomy of variability realization techniques

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 705-754

  Svahnberg, Mikael ^a   Van Gurp, Jilles ^b   Bosch, Jan ^c  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Creative Online Development BV   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Development process; Software architecture; Software product families; Variability; Variability realization techniques

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DECISION MAKING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT FAMILIES; VARIABILITY; VARIABILITY REALIZATION TECHNIQUES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21644473421     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.652     Document Type: Article

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