An Approach for Feature Modeling of Context-Aware Software Product Line

Feature modeling is an approach to represent commonalities and variabilities among products of a product line. context-aware applications use context information to provide relevant services and information for their users. one of the challenges to build a context-aware product line is to develop mechanisms to incorporate context information and adaptation knowledge in a feature model. this paper presents ubifex, an approach to support feature analysis for context-aware software product lines, which incorporates a modeling notation and a mechanism to verify the consistency of product configuration regarding context variations. moreover, an experimental study was performed as a preliminary evaluation, and a prototype was developed to enable the application of the proposed approach.