Configuring software product line feature models based on Stakeholders' soft and hard requirements

  • Authors:

  • Ebrahim Bagheri;Tommaso Di Noia;Azzurra Ragone;Dragan Gasevic

  • Affiliations:

  • NRC-IIT, Politecnico di Bari, University of Trento, Athabasca University;NRC-IIT, Politecnico di Bari, University of Trento, Athabasca University;NRC-IIT, Politecnico di Bari, University of Trento, Athabasca University;NRC-IIT, Politecnico di Bari, University of Trento, Athabasca University

  • Venue:
  • SPLC'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software product lines: going beyond
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Feature modeling is a technique for capturing commonality and variability. Feature models symbolize a representation of the possible application configuration space, and can be customized based on specific domain requirements and stakeholder goals. Most feature model configuration processes neglect the need to have a holistic approach towards the integration and satisfaction of the stakeholder's soft and hard constraints, and the application-domain integrity constraints. In this paper, we will show how the structure and constraints of a feature model can be modeled uniformly through Propositional Logic extended with concrete domains, called P(N). Furthermore, we formalize the representation of soft constraints in fuzzy P(N) and explain how semi-automated feature model configuration is performed. The model configuration derivation process that we propose respects the soundness and completeness properties.