Feature Modeling and Variability Modeling Syntactic Notation Comparison and Mapping

Wahyudianto  , Eko K. Budiardjo, Elviawaty M. Zamzami

1Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia; 2Departement of Computer Science, Universitas Sumatra Utara, Medan, Indonesia..

DOI: 10.4236/jcc.2014.22018                

Abstract

Feature Model (FM) became an important role in Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) field. Many approaches have been introduced since the original FM came up with Feature Oriented Domain Analysis (FODA) introduced by Kang in 1990. The main purpose of FM is used for commonality and variability analysis in domain engineering, to optimize the reusable aspect of software features or components. Cardinality-based Feature Model (CBFM) is one extension of original FM, which integrates several notations of other extensions. In CBFM, feature model defined as hierarchy of feature, with each of feature has a cardinality. The other notation to express variability within SPLE is Orthogonal Variability Model (OVM). At the other hand, OMG as standard organization makes an effort to build standard generic language to express the commonality and variability in SPL field, by initiate Common Variability Language (CVL). This paper reports the comparison and mapping of FODA, CBFM and OVM to CVL where need to be explored first to define meta model mapping of these several approaches. Furthermore, the comparison and mapping of those approaches are discussed in term of R3ST (read as “REST”) software feature model as the case study.

Keywords

Comparison and Mapping; FODA; Cardinality-based Feature Model; Orthogonal Variability Language; Common Variability Language; Feature Model; R3ST Software

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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