UML-Based Software Product Line Engineering with SMarty

This book is about software product lines (SPLs) designed and developed taking UML diagrams as the primary basis, modeled according to a rigorous approach composed of an UML profile and a systematic process for variability management activities, forming the Stereotype-based Management of Variability (SMarty) approach.

The book consists of five parts. Part I provides essential concepts on SPL in ter...