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

Kim Min-Seong (서강대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Park Soo-Yong (서강대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.33, no.7, 2006 , pp. 589-604 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
software reuse; software product lines; requirements engineering; domain analysis; feature-oriented approach;
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