1st International Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Product Line Engineering (FMSPLE 2010)

Software product line engineering (SPLE) aims at developing a family of systems by reuse in order to reduce time to market and to increase product quality. The correctness of the reusable development artifacts as well as the correctness of the developed products is of crucial interest for many safety-critical or business-critical applications. Formal methods have been successfully applied in single system engineering over the last years in order to rigorously establish critical system requirements. However, in SPLE, formal methods are not broadly applied yet, despite their potential to improve product quality. One of the reasons is that existing formal approaches from single system engineering do not consider variability, an essential aspect of product lines