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A taxonomy of variability realization techniques
Author(s) -
Svahnberg Mikael,
van Gurp Jilles,
Bosch Jan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.652
Subject(s) - realization (probability) , taxonomy (biology) , task (project management) , computer science , software , software engineering , systems engineering , engineering , programming language , mathematics , statistics , ecology , biology
Development of software product families relies heavily on the use of variability to manage the differences between products by delaying design decisions to later stages of the development and usage of the constructed software systems. Implementation of variability is not a trivial task, and is governed by a number of factors. In this paper, we describe the factors that are relevant in determining how to implement variability, and present a taxonomy of variability realization techniques. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.