An Industrial Case Study on Managing Variability with Traceability in Software Product Lines

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taeho Kim ◽  
Sungwon Kang
Keyword(s):  
Product Line ◽  
Washing Machine ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Rapid Product Development ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
Requirement Changes ◽  
Line Engineering

In order to successfully carry out software product line engineering, it is important to manage variability and explicit traceability management of variabilities with development artifacts. Trace links of variability with development artifacts allows software engineers to have rapid product development and reduces maintenance efforts resulting from requirement changes or defect corrections as trace links improve the understandability of their side effects. In this study, the authors present a Variability Tracing Approach (VTA), which consists of variability analysis, variability classification, and variability implementation. The proposed approach is applied to developing the development of a washing machine software platform. This paper describes the results of how a member product can be configured under the proposed VTA.

scholarly journals Feature Model Configuration Based on Two-Layer Modelling in Software Product Lines

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2648
Author(s):  
Elham Darmanaki Farahani ◽  
Jafar Habibi
Keyword(s):  
Product Line ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Model Configuration ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Application Requirements

The aim of the Software Product Line (SPL) approach is to improve the software development process by producing software products that match the stakeholders’ requirements. One of the important topics in SPLs is the feature model (FM) configuration process. The purpose of configuration here is to select and remove specific features from the FM in order to produce the required software product. At the same time, detection of differences between application’s requirements and the available capabilities of the implementation platform is a major concern of application requirements engineering. It is possible that the implementation of the selected features of FM needs certain software and hardware infrastructures such as database, operating system and hardware that cannot be made available by stakeholders. We address the FM configuration problem by proposing a method, which employs a two-layer FM comprising the application and infrastructure layers. We also show this method in the context of a case study in the SPL of a sample E-Shop website. The results demonstrate that this method can support both functional and non-functional requirements and can solve the problems arising from lack of attention to implementation requirements in SPL FM selection phase.

Assessing software product line potential: an exploratory industrial case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Koziolek ◽  
Thomas Goldschmidt ◽  
Thijmen de Gooijer ◽  
Dominik Domis ◽  
Stephan Sehestedt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Software Product

scholarly journals A LITERATURE REVIEW ON FEATURE DIAGRAM PRODUCT COUNTING AND ITS USAGE IN SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ECONOMIC MODELS

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (08) ◽  
pp. 1177-1204 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUBEN HERADIO ◽  
DAVID FERNANDEZ-AMOROS ◽  
JOSE A. CERRADA ◽  
ISMAEL ABAD
Keyword(s):  
Cost Savings ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Automated Analysis ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Feature Diagram ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Line Engineering

In software product line engineering, feature diagrams are a popular means to represent the similarities and differences within a family of related systems. In addition, feature diagrams implicitly model valuable information that can be used in economic models to estimate the cost savings of a product line. In particular, this paper reviews existing proposals on computing the total number of products modeled with a feature diagram and, given a feature, the number of products that implement it. This paper also reviews the economic information that can be estimated when such numbers are known. Thus, this paper contributes by bringing together previously-disparate streams of work: the automated analysis of feature diagrams and economic models for product lines.

A Method for Verifying Traceability between Feature Model and Software Architecture

2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 1085-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Yun Jia ◽  
Guan Zhong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Concept Lattice ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Formal Concept ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Function Expression ◽  
Line Engineering

Feature modeling is a main stream technology in domain requirement analysis of software product line engineering. Establishing the traceability between feature model and software architecture plays the essential role in improving software quality. Based on Formal Concept Analysis technology, we proposed a method to verify traceability between feature model and software architecture. The method analyzed the constitution of the feature, defined feature model and software architecture function expression, constructed a concept lattice and presented several mapping criteria to analysis it. It is more applicable for higher complexity model, comparing to the other model traceability method. A case study is used to demonstrate the feasibility of the method.

scholarly journals Software product line scoping and requirements engineering in a small and medium-sized enterprise: An industrial case study

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 189-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivonei Freitas da Silva ◽  
Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto ◽  
Pádraig O’Leary ◽  
Eduardo Santana de Almeida ◽  
Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Software Product Line ◽  
Product Line ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Software Product

Risk management in software product lines: An industrial case study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luanna Lopes Lobato ◽  
Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto ◽  
Ivan do Carmo Machado ◽  
Eduardo Santana de Alemida ◽  
Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Software Product Lines ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Software Product
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