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Software Product Lines: Techniques And Tools

Feature diagrams represent the variability and commonality of software product lines and permit the configuration of each specific application to be selected. Feature diagrams are the more specific SPL techniques, aimed to handle variability and traceability at each abstraction level of the product line. The product line development requires these diagrams to represent the SPL variability and as a mechanism to obtain the configuration of features that represent the selected combination of variants for each specific application.

However, the optional features must be connected with the related variation points of the architectural models that implement the SPL. This link allows the automatic instantiation of the SPL generic architecture into each specific application. This is derived from the complete architecture selecting or not each optional feature. The selected feature sub-model, through traceability relationships, guides the composition of the pre-existing code packages. The precondition for the success of this process is the existence of traceability links from features to design and from design to implementation.