An overview on analysis tools for software product lines

Abstract

A software product line is a set of different software products that share commonalities. For a selection of features, specialized products of one domain can be generated automatically from domain artifacts. However, analyses of software product lines need to handle a large number of products that can be exponential in the number of features. In the last decade, many approaches have been proposed to analyze software product lines efficiently. For some of these approaches tool support is available. Based on a recent survey on analysis for software product lines, we provide a first overview on such tools. While our discussion is limited to analysis tools, we provide an accompanying website covering further tools for product-line development. We compare tools according to their analysis and implementation strategy to identify underrepresented areas. In addition, we want to ease the reuse of existing tools for researchers and students, and to simplify research transfer to practice.