Applying visualisation techniques in software product lines
Daren Nestor, Steffen Thiel, Goetz Botterweck, Ciarán Cawley, Patrick Joseph Healy · 2008
Software product lines of industrial size can easily incorporate thousands of variation points. This scale of variability can become extremely complex to manage resulting in a product development process that bears significant costs. One technique that can be applied beneficially in this context is visualisation. Visualisation is widely used in software engineering and has proven useful to amplify human cognition in data intensive applications. Adopting this technique in software product line engineering can help stakeholders in supporting essential work tasks and in enhancing their understanding of large and complex product lines.