Towards modular analysis of multi product lines

ABSTRACT

Software product-line engineering enables efficient development of tailor-made software by means of reusable artifacts. As practitioners increasingly develop software systems as product lines, there is a growing potential to reuse product lines in other product lines, which we refer to as multi product line. We identify challenges when developing multi product lines and propose interfaces for different levels of abstraction ranging from variability modeling to functional and non-functional properties. We argue that these interfaces ease the reuse of product lines and identify research questions that need to be solved toward modular analysis of multi product lines.

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