@inproceedings{BotterweckThielCawleyetal., author = {Botterweck, Goetz and Thiel, Steffen and Cawley, Ciar{\´a}n and Nestor, Daren and Preußner, Andr{\´e}}, title = {Visual Configuration in Automotive Software Product Lines}, abstract = {Abstract. Software Product Line engineering has emerged as a viable and important software development paradigm in the automotive industry. It allows companies to realise significant improvements in time-to-market, cost, productivity, and system quality. One major difficulty with software product line engineering is related to the fact that a product line of industrial size can easily incorporate thousands of variation points. This scale of variability can become extremely complex to manage resulting in a product configuration process that bears significant costs. This paper introduces a meta-model and research tool that employs visualisation and interaction techniques to improve product configuration in high-variability product lines. The meta-model and techniques utilised are illustrated using an automotive restraint system example.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{CawleyNestorPreussneretal., author = {Cawley, Ciar{\´a}n and Nestor, Daren and Preußner, Andr{\´e} and Botterweck, Goetz and Thiel, Steffen}, title = {Interactive Visualisation to Support Product Configuration in Software Product Lines}, abstract = {Abstract. Software Product Line engineering allows companies to realise significant improvements in time-to-market, cost, productivity, and system quality. One major difficulty with software product lines is that within industry there may exist thousands of variation points in a single product line. This scale of variability can become extremely complex to manage resulting in a product configuration process that bears significant costs. This paper presents a feature configuration meta-model and introduces a prototype tool that employs visualisation and interaction techniques to provide feature configuration functionality.}, language = {en} }