@inproceedings{99,
  keywords = {Visualisation, Software Product Lines, Configuration},
  author = {Goetz Botterweck and Steffen Thiel and Daren Nestor and Saad bin Abid and Ciarán Cawley},
  title = {Visual Tool Support for Configuring and Understanding Software Product Lines},
  abstract = {Software  product  lines  of  industrial  size  can  easily  incorporate  thousands  of  variation  points.  This  scale  of  variability  can  become  extremely  complex  to  man-age  resulting  in  a  product  development  process  that  bears significant costs. One technique that can be ap-plied beneficially in this context is visualisation. Visu-alisation  is  widely  used  in  software  engineering  and  has  proven  useful  to  amplify  human  cognition  in  data  intensive applications. Adopting this technique in soft-ware product line engineering can help stakeholders in supporting essential work tasks and in enhancing their understanding of large and complex product lines. This  paper  introduces  a  meta-model  and  accompa-nied  research  tool  that  employs  visualisation  tech-niques  to  support  fundamental  product  line  develop-ment  tasks.  The  meta-model  specifies  major  entities  such as decisions, features, and components and rela-tionships  among  them.  We  discuss  which  tasks  can  be  supported  based  on  the  meta-model  and  show  exam-ples  of  how  these  tasks  can  be  further  enhanced  by  utilising   interactive   visualisation   techniques   imple-mented in our tool.},
  year = {2008},
  booktitle = {Software Product Lines, 12th International Conference, SPLC 2008, Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008, Proceedings},
  journal = {Software Product Lines, 12th International Conference, SPLC 2008, Limerick, Ireland, September 8-12, 2008, Proceedings},
  pages = {77-86},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SPLC.2008.32},
  doi = {10.1109/SPLC.2008.32},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/splc/2008},
  key = {bibcite_99},
}