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Feature Models, Grammars, and Propositional Formulas

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Feature models are used to specify members of a product-line. Despite years of progress, contemporary tools often provide limited support for feature constraints and offer little or no support for debugging feature models. We integrate prior results to connect feature models, grammars, and propositional formulas. This connection allows arbitrary propositional constraints to be defined among features and enables off-the-shelf satisfiability solvers to debug feature models. We also show how our ideas can generalize recent results on the staged configuration of feature models.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78712

    Don Batory

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  1. Philips Research, IST / SwA,  

    Henk Obbink

  2. Software Systems Engineering, University Duisburg-Essen, Schützenbahn 70, 45117, Essen, Germany

    Klaus Pohl

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Batory, D. (2005). Feature Models, Grammars, and Propositional Formulas. In: Obbink, H., Pohl, K. (eds) Software Product Lines. SPLC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3714. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11554844_3

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