Managing feature models with familiar: a demonstration of the language and its tool support

Developing software product lines involves modeling a large number of features, usually using feature models, that represent different viewpoints, sub-systems or concerns of the software system. To manage complexity on a large scale, there is a need to separate, relate and compose several feature models while automating the reasoning on their compositions. This demonstration gives an overview of a Domain-Specific Language, familiar, that is dedicated to the management of feature models. Its comprehensive programming environment, based on Eclipse, is also described. It complements existing tool support (i.e., FeatureIDE).

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