Traceability for system families

  • Authors:
  • Detlef Streitferdt

  • Affiliations:
  • Ilmenau Technical University, P.O. Box 100565, 98684 Ilmenau

  • Venue:
  • ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

System families are an idea of software reuse in a specific problem domain. Existing methods have little requirements engineering support for system family development. This short paper proposes a requirements metamodel for system family development. Traceability throughout model elements is a necessary precondition for preserving the consistency of the complete family model during development and is a main issue in this paper as well as for software development in general. Family development based on the metamodel guarantees traceability by the inclusion of all development artifacts in a single and consistent model.