A proposal for consistency checking in dynamic software product line models using OCL

Abstract

Ubiquitous applications use context information to provide services and relevant information for their users. On the other hand, in Software Product Line approaches, commonality and variability of a system family should be identified and documented through variability modeling. Thus, one of the challenges to build Context-Aware Product Lines, called Dynamic Software Product Lines, is the consistent representation of context information that influences the variability model. This work proposes the use of UML profiles and OCL to formalize and represent variability and context concepts in a consistent manner.