Variability in Software Engineering Paradigms

The concept of variability is not new in software engineering, but current research mostly remains vague about the overall variability concept when it comes to giving a clear overview of the dimensions of variability. In this paper we evaluate the core variability concept by proposing an overview of the set of definitions concerning variability related concepts and by setting up dimensions of variability. These dimensions represent different possible views on variability for all types of stakeholders. Through an analysis of the gaps in the current state-of-the-art literature, we identify challenges for the current state-of-the-art and we propose an extension to current variability related paradigms to fill in these gaps.

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