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Making Variability Decisions during Architecture Design

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Software Product-Family Engineering (PFE 2003)

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Two different models for variability are used to enable selections among various architectural choices to achieve variability. A cost model is used to justify and rationalize choices among architectural mechanisms intended to defer the binding time. A dependency model is used to justify and rationalize architectural choices intended to keep a variability from affecting more than the necessary number of modules.

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  1. Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213, USA

    Len Bass, Felix Bachmann & Mark Klein

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  1. Philips Research Laboratories, Prof Holstlaan 4, 5656 AA, Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Frank J. van der Linden

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Bass, L., Bachmann, F., Klein, M. (2004). Making Variability Decisions during Architecture Design. In: van der Linden, F.J. (eds) Software Product-Family Engineering. PFE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24667-1_35

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