On adopting multi-criteria decision-making approaches for variability management in software product lines

Traditional requirements engineering involves analyzing tradeoffs between available alternatives. In the context of Software Product Lines (SPLs) application engineers have to instantiate variability by evaluating a set of options available from the platform. In this position paper, we propose the adoption of multi-criteria decision-making for instantiating a variability model in application requirements engineering amenable to the adoption of a Product Lines approach.