TY - CHAP A1 - Botterweck, Goetz A1 - Thiel, Steffen A1 - Cawley, Ciarán A1 - Nestor, Daren A1 - Preußner, André T1 - Visual Configuration in Automotive Software Product Lines N2 - 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. KW - Softwaretechnik KW - Produktlinien KW - Visualisierung KW - Konfigurationsmanagement Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Cawley, Ciarán A1 - Nestor, Daren A1 - Preußner, André A1 - Botterweck, Goetz A1 - Thiel, Steffen T1 - Interactive Visualisation to Support Product Configuration in Software Product Lines N2 - 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. KW - Softwaretechnik KW - Produktlinien KW - Visualisierung KW - Konfigurationsmanagement Y1 - 2008 ER -