Applying visualisation techniques in software product lines

SOFTVIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Software Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 175-184

  Nestor, Daren ^a   Thiel, Steffen ^a   Botterweck, Goetz ^a   Cawley, Ciarán ^a   Healy, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Feature configuration; Interaction; Software product lines; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PRODUCTS; DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS; ESSENTIAL WORKS; FEATURE CONFIGURATION; HUMAN COGNITIONS; INDUSTRIAL SIZES; INTERACTION; META MODELS; PRODUCT DERIVATIONS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; RESEARCH TOOLS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERINGS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES; VARIABILITY MANAGEMENTS; VISUALISATION;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 63149189150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1409720.1409748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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