Quality Ranking of Features in Software Product Line Engineering

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is a systematic software reuse approach that developing a set of similar software products as a family. All the visible characters of the products in a product family are represented as features and their relationships are modelled in a feature model. During application engineering, desired features are selected from the feature model in a configuration process based on the requirements. In this process, the quality of final product should be considered as early as possible which requires identifying and ranking associated features´ contributions to related quality attributes before configuring member products. In this paper, we propose a ranking approach to address the issues in current quality based feature ranking approaches, we also include a case study to illustrate our approach at the end.