Quality Improvement of Variability Management Tools in Software Product Line Engineering

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is an engineering paradigm that allows the creation of software product portfolio similar to the systems or products. It is important for an effective method deployment in the particular context of industrial scale Product Lines (PLs). The purpose of this research work is to determine and gain a detailed understanding of where and how the quality of variability management tools could be improved. The study was conducted experimentally and involved 10 feature-modelling tools based on their availability and support for feature models, to be evaluated using the benchmark in order to identify whether and to what extent these tools provide support for the identified quality attributes.