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[Context & motivation] Variability models, feature diagrams ahead, have become commonplace in software product line engineering as a means to document variability early in the lifecycle. Over the years though, their application span has been extended to aid stakeholders in the configuration of software products. [Question/problem] However, current feature-based configuration techniques hardly support the tailoring of configuration views to the profiles of heterogeneous stakeholders. [Principal ideas/results] In this paper, we introduce a lightweight mechanism to leverage multidimensional separation of concerns in feature-based configuration. [Contribution] We propose a technique to specify concerns in feature diagrams and to build automatically concern-specific configuration views, which come with three alternative visualisations.
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Hubaux, A., Heymans, P., Schobbens, PY., Deridder, D. (2010). Towards Multi-view Feature-Based Configuration. In: Wieringa, R., Persson, A. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14192-8_12
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