XVCL: A mechanism for handling variants in software product lines

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 381-407

  Zhang, Hongyu ^a   Jarzabek, Stan ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Frame technology; Software product lines; Variability mechanism; XVCL

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PRODUCT DESIGN; XML;

COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH (CAD) DOMAINS; GENERIC COMPONENTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES; SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 5144228439     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2003.04.007     Document Type: Article

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