Release planning with feature trees: industrial case

  • Authors:
  • Samuel Fricker;Susanne Schumacher

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden;Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • REFSQ'12 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Requirements Engineering: foundation for software quality
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

[Context and motivation] Requirements catalogues for software release planning are often not complete and homogeneous. Current release planning approaches, however, assume such commitment to detail --- at least implicitly. [Question/problem] We evaluate how to relax these expectations, while at the same time reducing release planning effort and increasing decision-making flexibility. [Principal ideas/results] Feature trees capture AND, OR, and REQUIRES relationships between requirements. Such requirements structuring can be used to hide incompleteness and to support abstraction. [Contribution] The paper describes how to utilize feature trees for planning the releases of an evolving software solution and evaluates the effects of the approach on effort, decision-making, and trust with an industrial case.