Title :
The product line mapping approach to defining and structuring product portfolios
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Exp. Software Eng. (IESE), Kaiserslautern, Germany
Abstract :
A key activity in product line development is to define and structure the product portfolio which shall be the basis for product line development. We present an approach that aims at supporting this activity. This approach also provides a conceptual structuring of the product line in terms of the features and technical domains that are relevant to it. This structure then provides a basis for the planning of the actual product line development and for architecture definition. We also discuss the validation of our approach in the context of some case studies.
Keywords :
software architecture; software development management; software reusability; architecture definition; case studies; planning; product line development; product line mapping approach; product portfolio definition; reusable components; software architecture; Computer architecture; Concrete; Information analysis; Large-scale systems; Performance analysis; Portfolios; Software architecture; Software engineering;
Conference_Titel :
Requirements Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE Joint International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1465-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICRE.2002.1048532