Requirements engineering for product families

  • Authors:
  • Juha Kuusela;Juha Savolainen

  • Affiliations:
  • Nokia Research Center, Software Technology Laboratory, P.O. Box 407, FIN-00045 NOKIA GROUP;Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, P.O. Box 9700, 02015 HUT, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In search for improved software quality and high productivity, software reuse has become a key research area. One of the most promising reuse approaches is product families. However, current practices in requirements engineering do not support product families. This paper describes a definition hierarchy method for requirements capturing, structuring, analysis and documentation. This method helps to identify architectural drivers of the product family and shows how different products in the family vary.