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A Domain Analysis Method for Saftware Product Lines Based an Goals, Scenarios, and Features

소프트웨어 프로덕트 라인을 위한 목표, 시나리오, 휘처 기반의 도메인 분석 방안

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Abstract

Software product lines (SPL) are recently an emerging software reuse paradigm, which helps organizations develop their products from reusable core assets rather than from scratch. For developing these assets, understanding commonality and variability (C&V) is essential. A feature-oriented approach has been used extensively for C&V analysis in the SPL. However, this contains no proposal to systematically identify features and provide the rationale for the features. Further, the approach does not directly show how the results of C&V analysis will satisfy an organization's high-level business goals and provide the rationale for the C&V. Therefore, this paper presents a domain analysis method for the SPL based on goals, scenarios, and features in order to overcome some of the deficiencies and limitations of the feature-oriented approach. In particular, the paper proposes a domain requirements model (DRM) and a domain requirements modeling method based on the DRM. This method has been applied to the home integration system (HIS) domain to demonstrate its feasibility with a supporting tool, namely IDEAS. Our approach makes it possible to systematically identify the features and provide the rationale for both the features and the C&V.

소프트웨어 재사용을 위한 새로운 패러다임으로서 대두되고 있는 소프트웨어 프로덕트 라인에서 가장 중요하며, 기본이 되는 것은 바로 재사용 가능한 소프트웨어 자산을 개발하기 위한 프로덕트 라인의 공통성과 가변성 식별이라고 하겠다. 현재 이를 위해 휘처 중심의 도메인 분석 방법이 많이 사용되고 있으나, 이 방법은 휘처를 식별하고, 식별된 휘처의 근거를 제시하기 위한 체계적인 방법을 제공하지 못하고 있다. 또한 프로덕트의 공통성과 가변성 분석 결과가 프로덕트 라인 개발 조직의 최상위 수준 목표(goals)를 만족시키고, 그 근거를 보여줄 수 있어야 하지만 현재 이러한 부분에 대한 연구가 부족한 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존의 휘처 중심의 도메인 분석 방법에서의 문제점들을 해결하고, 보안하기 위해 프로덕트 라인을 위한 목표, 시나리오, 휘처 기반의 도메인 분석 방안을 제안하였다. 이것은 목표와 시나리오 그리고 휘처의 관계를 통하여 프로덕트 라인을 위한 도메인 요구사항 모델(DRM: domain requirements model)을 제시하고, 그러한 모델을 바탕으로 도메인 요구사항 모델링 방법(domain requirements modeling method)을 제안한다. 마지막으로는 제안된 방안을 지원하는 도구 (IDEAS)를 설명하고, 이를 통해 주택 통합 시스템(HIS)에 적용함으로써 제안된 방법을 검증하였다. 제안된 방법은 체계적으로 휘처를 식별하고, 그에 대한 근거 및 공통성과 가변성에 대한 근거를 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

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