Run-time Variability Issues in Software Product Lines

The Product line approach promises productivity and flexibility gains through reuse. In order to achieve higher levels of productivity and flexibility, companies may need to adopt run-time variability realization techniques. However, such an approach can raise issues that companies need to face in order to fully implement run-time variability in their product lines. This is the case of I2S; a Portuguese software-house specialized in software solutions for the insurance industry. In this paper, we present and discuss two major run-time variability issues that were identified in the insurance domain. We also present our approach to solve these issues and how it is being implemented in the I2S product line. We also relate our approach to other techniques documented in the field literature.