Analysis strategies for software product lines: A classification and survey

Abstract

Software-product-line engineering enables the efficient development of similar software products. Instead of developing each product from scratch, products are generated from common artifacts. However, the product generation is a challenge for the analysis of correctness properties. Applying traditional analysis techniques, such as type checking and model checking, to each product involves redundant effort and is often not feasible due to the combinatorial explosion of products. Approaches to scale analysis techniques to product lines have been presented in unrelated research