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Towards product configuration taking into account quality concerns

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Karina Villela,

Damiano ZanardiniAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '12: Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2

Pages 82 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/2364412.2364426

Published: 02 September 2012 Publication History

Abstract

The configuration of concrete products from a product line infrastructure is the process of resolving the variability captured in the product line according to a company's market strategy or specific customer's requirements. Several aspects influence the selection of features for a concrete product, such as dependencies and constraints between features, the different stakeholders involved in the process, the desired degree of quality, and cost constraints. This paper presents the vision of a configurator that will focus on providing indicators of security and performance for features and empowering its users to interactively observe the effect of the selected set of features on these two quality characteristics. We propose the use of reusable expert knowledge and static analysis for obtaining the indicators of security and performance, respectively. The two main issues to be investigated are: (1) to which degree the configuration process should be automated; and (2) how exactly to obtain indicators of security and performance for features that can be used to predict the security and performance of whole configurations.

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Kenner AMay RKrüger JSaake GLeich TMousavi MSchobbens P(2021)Safety, security, and configurable software systemsProceedings of the 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A10.1145/3461001.3471147(148-159)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461001.3471147
Ochoa LGonzález-Rojas OJuliana ACastro HSaake G(2018)A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product linesJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2018.07.054144:C(511-532)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2018.07.054

Index Terms

Towards product configuration taking into account quality concerns
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages

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SPLC '12: Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2

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DOI:10.1145/2364412

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Kenner AMay RKrüger JSaake GLeich TMousavi MSchobbens P(2021)Safety, security, and configurable software systemsProceedings of the 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume A10.1145/3461001.3471147(148-159)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3461001.3471147
Ochoa LGonzález-Rojas OJuliana ACastro HSaake G(2018)A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product linesJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2018.07.054144:C(511-532)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2018.07.054

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