CFM Toolbox Editor

The CFM Toolbox Editor is a core component of the CFM Toolbox (see CFM Toolbox Documentation), providing a graphical interface for creating, editing, and visualizing cardinality-based feature models. It is designed to simplify the complexity of working with feature models while offering an intuitive and user-friendly experience. The editor is particularly tailored to handle the intricacies of cardinality-based feature models, making it a powerful tool for researchers, developers, and practitioners in software product line engineering.

Key Features of the CFM Toolbox Editor

• Graphical Creation of Feature Models: Users can visually design feature models.
• Intuitive User Interface: The editor provides a clean and easy-to-navigate interface, making it accessible for both beginners ans advanced users.

Use Cases for the CFM Toolbox Editor

• Research and Education: Researchers and students can use the editor to experiment with cardinality-based feature modeling and explore advanced concepts in software engineering.
• Software Product Line Engineering: The editor is ideal for designing and managing feature models for software product lines, where variability and commonality need to be explicitly defined.
• Industrial Applications: The editor can be used in industrial settings to model complex systems and manage product variability in large-scale projects.

Read the documentation to learn more.

Getting Started

The CFM Toolbox editor, it's dependencies, and core plugins can easily be installed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) using the following command:

pip3 install cfmtoolbox

Running the CFM Toolbox Editor

After the installation, the CFM Toolbox can be run from the command line using the following command:

python3 -m cfmtoolbox --import example.uvl --export example.uvl edit