Paper Info
Title
User interface engineering for software product lines: the dilemma between automation and usability
Abstract
Software Product Lines (SPL) are systematic approach to develop families of similar software products by explicating their commonalities and variability, e.g., in a feature model. Using techniques from model-driven development, it is then possible to automatically derive a concrete product from a given configuration (i.e., selection of features). However, this is problematic for interactive applications with complex user interfaces (UIs) as automatically derived UIs often provide limited usability. Thus, in practice, the UI is mostly created manually for each product, which results in major drawbacks concerning efficiency and maintenance, e.g., when applying changes that affect the whole product family. This paper investigates these problems based on real-world examples and analyses the development of product families from a UI perspective. To address the underlying challenges, we propose the use of abstract UI models, as used in HCI, to bridge the gap between automated, traceable product derivation and customized, high quality user interfaces. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by a concrete example implementation for the suggested model-driven development process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2305484.2305491
EICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
whole product family,complex user interface,model-driven development,ui perspective,model-driven development process,abstract ui model,user interface engineering,similar software product,traceable product derivation,concrete product,software product line,product family,usability engineering,user interface
Product engineering,Software engineering,Heuristic evaluation,Computer science,Agile usability engineering,Feature model,Human–computer interaction,Requirement,Product design specification,User interface design,User interface
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.85
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Pleuss122616.31
Benedikt Hauptmann2879.13
Deepak Dhungana386750.02
Goetz Botterweck462046.72