Systems and Software Variability Management

The success of product line engineering techniques in the last 15 years has popularized the use of software variability as a key modeling approach for describing the commonality and variability of systems at all stages of the software lifecycle. Software product lines enable a family of products to share a common core platform, while allowing for product specific functionality being built on top of the platform. Many companies have exploited the concept of software product lines to increase the resources that focus on highly differentiating functionality and thus improve their competitiveness with higher quality and reusable products and decreasing the time-to-market condition.

Part I Variability Management.- Software Product Line Engineering.- Variability Modeling.- Variability Scope.- Binding Time and Evolution.- Variability Implementation.- Variability Realization Techniques and Product Derivation.- Visualizing Software Variability.- Variability in the Software Product Line Lifecycle.- Part II Research and Commercial Tools.- COVAMOF.- PLUM - Product Line Unified Modeller Tool.- FaMa.- pure::variants.- Part III Industry Experiences.- Philips Healthcare Compositional Diversity Case.- Variability in Power Plan Control Software.- Second Generation Product Line Engineering - A Case Study at General Motors.- Part IV Emerging and Research Topics in Software Variability.- Dynamic Software Product Lines.- Variability in Autonomic Computing.- Variability in Web services.- Service-Oriented Product Lines.- Software Variability and Design decisions.- Variability and Aspect Orientation.