Design of a UML profile for feature diagrams and its tooling implementation

This paper proposes an instrumented solution to integrate feature diagrams with UML models to be used as part of a general approach for designing software product lines and for product generation. The contribution is implemented in IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA). It is intended to be used in the context of large, complex and multi-domain projects, and at allowing model transformations to derive products. Our RSA implementation makes it possible to link feature diagrams with UML model artifacts. It allows traceability between feature models and other different kinds of models (requirements, class diagrams, sequence or activity diagrams, etc.). It is used in a project dedicated to create smart building optimization systems.

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