Systematic Management of Variability in UML-based Software Product Lines

This paper presents SMarty, a variability management approach for UML- based software product lines (PL). SMarty is supported by a UML profile, the SMar- tyProfile, and a process for managing variabilities, the SMartyProcess. SMartyProfile aims at representing variabilities, variation points, and variants in UML models by applying a set of stereotypes. SMartyProcess consists of a set of activities that is systematically executed to trace, identify, and control variabilities in a PL based on SMarty. It also identifies variability implementation mechanisms and analyzes specific product configurations. In addition, a more comprehensive application of SMarty is presented using SEI's Arcade Game Maker PL. An evaluation of SMarty and related work are discussed.

• Publication year

  2010

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  Journal of universal computer science (Online)

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  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.3217/jucs-016-17-2374
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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