On Controlled Visualisations in Software Product Line Engineering.
Florian Heidenreićh, Ilie Şavga, Christian Wende · 2008
Ongoing research in Software Product Line Engineer-ing (SPLE) emphasises the derivation of a concrete prod-uct based on a given variant configuration as one of the most promising areas of the field. To allow for (auto-matic) derivation of products in SPLE, models that describe features and their variability in Software Product Lines (SPLs)—for example feature models—need to be connected with artefacts that are realising the features. It is crucial not only to support the developer in the complex task of defin-ing such connections, but also to provide means to reason and analyse them—for example visualisations. In this pa-per we present MappingViews, a novel visualisation tech-nique that provides four different visualisations for connec-tions between variability models and realisation models and show its realisation in our tool FeatureMapper. 1