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@inproceedings {EichelbergerSchmid13,
author={Holger Eichelberger and Klaus Schmid},
title={A Systematic Analysis of Textual Variability Modeling Languages},
publisher={ - ACM},
booktitle={17th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC '13)},
year={2013},
pages={12-21},
doi={10.1145/2491627.2491652},
url={https://sse.uni-hildesheim.de/media/fb4/informatik/AG_SSE/PDFs/publications/EichelbergerSchmid13a.pdf},
abstract={Industrial variability models tend to grow in size and complexity due to ever-increasing functionality and complexity of software systems. Some authors report on variability models specifying several thousands of variabilities. However, traditional variability modeling approaches do not seem to scale adequately to cope with size and complexity of such models. Recently, textual variability modeling languages have been advocated as one scalable solution. In this paper, we provide a systematic analysis of the capabilities of current textual variability modeling languages, in particular regarding variability management in the large. Towards this aim, we define a classification schema consisting of five dimensions, classify ten different textual variability modeling languages using the classification schema and provide an analysis. In summary, some textual variability modeling languages go beyond textual representations of traditional variability modeling approaches and provide sophisticated modeling concepts and constraint languages. Three textual variability modeling approaches already support mechanisms for large-scale variability modeling such as model composition, modularization, or evolution support.}
}
