Paper Info
Title
Analyzing the convenience of adopting a product line engineering approach: an industrial qualitative evaluation
Abstract
Engineering Software Product Lines may be a strategy to reduce costs and efforts for developing software and increasing business productivity. However, it cannot be considered as a "silver bullet" that applies to all types of organizations. Companies must consider pros and cons to determine sound reasons and justify its adoption. In previous work, we proposed the APPLIES evaluation framework to help decision-makers find arguments that may justify (or not) adopting a product line engineering approach. This paper presents our experience using this framework in a mid-sized software development company with more than 25 years of experience but without previous experience in product line engineering. This industrial experience, conducted as a qualitative empirical evaluation, helped us to evaluate to what extent APPLIES is practical to be used in a real environment and to gather ideas from real potential users to improve the framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3307630.3342418
Proceedings of the 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B
Keywords
Field
DocType
empirical evaluation, product line adoption, product line engineering, qualitative evaluation
Domain engineering,Computer science,Manufacturing engineering
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6668-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luisa Rincón131.75
Raúl Mazo29312.58
Camille Salinesi368463.45