Have you tried explaining variant management to your boss? And he or she is not really the engineering or technical type? Well, we often get asked this question and so, instead of trying to answer ourselves with our engineering hat on, we have asked a journalist friend to come up with a simpler explanation. Let us know what you think: conversations@pure-systems.com

With the evolvement of open, standardized architectures like AUTOSAR variant management becomes a core theme and problem to solve for the platform. Existing mechanisms like #IFDEF as used with the C Pre-Processor no longer work with new languages like C# and JAVA, and formats like XML. So how do you go about managing variability at a granular level?

If you want to refresh both your Japanese and your knowledge about SPL, have a look at this nice movie. If you need more, check out the related web page. If your Japanese skills (like ours) are rather limited, there is also an English variant of this page and movie.