An Overview of Syntactic and Semantic Issues in Software Product Lines

Abstract

Feature models are at the core of Software Product Lines (SPL). Along the years different feature modeling languages have been proposed. Although they share a set of core concepts, feature languages present differences such as specification meta language, visual and textual emphasis and language constructs, among others. The result of this situation is a contemporary set of dialects with dissimilarities. This paper presents a metamodel and a semantic framework to categorize syntactic variations and semantic anomalies in SPL.