Paper Info
Title
On the Relationship between Inspection and Evolution in Software Product Lines: An Exploratory Study
Abstract
Manage the evolution in Software Product Lines (SPL) can bring some benefits such as keep the trace ability between assets in core assets and products, avoid some irregular growth or decrease before it becomes a threat to the system, and also use the products feedback to improve the core asset quality. In order to understand the evolution in SPL, this paper presents an empirical study to investigate evidence between information from features non-conformities and data from corrective maintenance, based on an SPL industrial project in the medical domain. The investigation aims at tracking the features non-conformities and their likely root causes using results from two preliminary studies. The first one captured and classified the features non-conformities from features specification of nine sub-domains and the second one investigated the evolution of SPL assets along the sub-domains development. The study sample was analyzed using statistical techniques, such as Spearman correlation rank and Poisson regression models. The findings indicated that there is significant positive correlation between feature non-conformities and corrective maintenance. Sub-domains with a high number of feature non-conformities had a higher number of corrective maintenance. Moreover, sub-domains qualified as high risk have also positive correlation with corrective maintenance. This correlation allows the building of predictive models to estimate corrective maintenance based on the risk sub-domain attribute values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SBES.2012.18
SBES
Keywords
Field
DocType
software product lines,features non-conformities,spl industrial project,sub-domains development,spearman correlation rank,exploratory study,positive correlation,corrective maintenance,spl asset,significant positive correlation,features specification,feature non-conformities,empirical software engineering,predictive models,statistical analysis,inspection,maintenance engineering,software inspection,product development,formal specification,software evolution,correlation
Systems engineering,Computer science,Empirical process (process control model),Corrective maintenance,Software inspection,Software evolution,Spearman's rank correlation coefficient,Maintenance engineering,Empirical research,Reliability engineering,New product development
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iuri Santos Souza171.45
Raphael Pereira de Oliveira2204.91
Gecynalda Soares da Silva Gomes3101.94
Eduardo Santana de Almeida488680.46