Evaluating variability instantiation strategies for product lines
Isabel John, Adeline Silva · 2011
Explicit variability management is essential for large product lines and requires explicit strategies for instantiating the managed variabilities during application engineering. An instantiation strategy proposes a certain order for the resolution of variabilities during application engineering or for testing. If an alphabetical strategy is used, for instance, the variabilities are resolved in alphabetical order, from A to Z. In this paper, we motivate the necessity of strategies for large variability models, which help to identify starting points and guide the resolution of variability models.