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A complexity tale: web configurators

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Gilles Perrouin,

Jean-Marc Davril,

Patrick HeymansAuthors Info & Claims

VACE '16: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Variability and Complexity in Software Design

Pages 28 - 31

https://doi.org/10.1145/2897045.2897051

Published: 14 May 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Online configurators are basically everywhere. From physical goods (cars, clothes) to services (cloud solutions, insurances, etc.) such configurators have pervaded many areas of everyday life, in order to provide the customers products tailored to their needs. Being sometimes the only interfaces between product suppliers and consumers, much care has been devoted to the HCI aspects of configurators, aiming at offering an enjoyable buying experience. However, at the backend, the management of numerous and complex configuration options results from ad-hoc process rather than a systematic variability-aware engineering approach. We present our experience in analysing web configurators and formalising configuration options in terms of feature models or product configuration matrices. We also consider behavioural issues and perspectives on their architectural design.

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Index Terms

A complexity tale: web configurators
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
    1. Intellectual property
      1. Software reverse engineering
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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