Title
Quantifying Maintainability in Feature Oriented Product Lines
Abstract
Families of products are steadily emerging for distinct settings such as embedded systems, navigational systems, financial applications or even web applications. This shifts the attention from individual product-centric development to software product line development where the focus is on constructing reusable assets from which customer-specific products are obtained. This paper tackles the maintenance of an entire family of products, describing our approach to quantifying maintainability. We report our experience measuring the maintainability index of each product in the family, and then propose a generalization of the results in terms of the entire family or product line. This exposes a number of benefits towards the improvement of product-line maintainability, enhancing ultimately customer-specific products.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493319
CSMR
Keywords
Field
DocType
software maintenance,software management,customer-specific product,feature oriented product line,maintainability index,maintainability quantification,product family maintenance,product-line maintainability,Software engineering,maintenance and reusability
Software engineering,Systems engineering,Computer science,Product line,Software product line,Web application,Software maintenance,Maintainability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gentzane Aldekoa1101.67
Salvador Trujillo248929.31
Goiuria Sagardui Mendieta329042.55
Oscar Díaz441562.28