Managing Variability for Software Product Lines: Working with Variability Mechanisms

This work describes a workshop that is intended to fill the void between variability requirements visible to those who deal with features and other product-level concerns, and the variability mechanisms visible to creators and consumers of a product line's core assets. The goal of the workshop is to begin to codify a body of knowledge for the informed and purposeful selection of variability mechanisms to use in a software product line's core assets.