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3 - From requirements to feature models

from Part II - Variability analysis and modelling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

By
Nathan Weston  and
Phil Greenwood
Edited by
Awais Rashid ,
Jean-Claude Royer  and
Andreas Rummler
Awais Rashid
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Jean-Claude Royer
Affiliation:
Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Andreas Rummler
Affiliation:
SAP Research Center, Dresden
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Summary

Requirements engineering in software product line engineering

Software product line engineering (SPLE) (Clements & Northrop, 2001) has been recognised as one of the foremost techniques for developing reusable and maintainable software within system families (Parnas, 2001a, 2001b). We focus on a feature-oriented form of SPLE, in which the key concern is to break the problem domain down into features, which are system properties, or functionalities, which are relevant to some stakeholders.

Domain and application engineering

Feature-oriented SPLE can be usefully broken down into two core activities: domain engineering and application engineering. The key task of domain engineering is to model the domain itself in order to lay the foundation for deriving individual products, which is the remit of application engineering. The work presented in this chapter belongs to the realm of domain engineering; we seek to aid the requirements engineer in analysing, understanding and modelling the domain by providing a framework for the automated construction of feature models from natural language requirements documents.

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Aspect-Oriented, Model-Driven Software Product Lines
The AMPLE Way
 , pp. 55 - 81
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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