Requirements engineering in software product line engineering

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 19 - Trang 331-332 - 2013
Emilio Insfran1, Gary Chastek2, Patrick Donohoe2, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite3
1Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
2Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
3Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tóm tắt

Many attempts have been made to increase the productivity and quality of software products based on software reuse. Software product line practice is one such approach, one that focuses on developing a family of products which have a majority of features in common. Hence, there are numerous requirements that are common across the family, but others are unique to individual products. Traditional requirements engineering methods were conceived to deal with single product requirements and are usually not flexible enough to address the needs arising from reusing requirements for a family of products. There is also the additional burden of correctly identifying and engineering both product-line-wide requirements and product-specific requirements as well as evolving them. Therefore, in this special issue, we want to highlight the importance and the role of requirements engineering for product line development as well as to provide insights into the state of the art in the field.

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