Measuring Non-Functional Properties in Software Product Line for Product Derivation

  • Authors:
  • Norbert Siegmund;Marko Rosenmüller;Martin Kuhlemann;Christian Kästner;Gunter Saake

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • APSEC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 15th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A software product line (SPL) enables stakeholders to derive different software products for a domain while providing a high degree of reuse of their code units. Software products are derived in a configuration process by composing different code units. The configuration process becomes complex if SPLs contain hundreds of features. In many cases, a stakeholder is not only interested in functional but also in non-functional properties of a desired product. Because SPLs can be used in different application scenarios alternative implementations of already existing functionality are developed to meet special non-functional requirements, like restricted binary size and performance guarantees. To enable these complex configurations we discuss and present techniques to measure non-functional properties of software modules and use these values to compute SPL configurations optimized to the users needs.