Modelling Configurable Products and Software Product Families

Software product families are an emerging and important area of software engineering, whereas product configuration of traditional products, i.e., mechanical and electronic, has a slightly longer history as a specific area of research and business. This paper presents a preliminary comparison of concepts for modelling variety and evolution in both fields. This comparison shows remarkable similarities in these areas, but also leads to proposals on how results could be transferred from one area to the other.

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