Modeling Software Product Lines Using Feature Diagrams

The leading strategies for systematic software reuse focus on reuse of domain knowledge. One such strategy is software product line engineering. This strategy selects a set of reusable software components that form the core around which software products in a domain are built. Feature modeling is a process that enables engineers to identify these core assets, in particular the com(e.g., shared) and variable features of products. The focus of this thesis is to give an overview of the feature modeling process by introducing feature diagrams. Feature diagrams capture and represent comand variable properties (features) of the software products in a domain, focusing on properties that may vary, which are further used to produce different software products. We present practical examples that show how feature models are used to represent a set of valid composition of features (configurations), in which each configuration can be considered as a specification of a software system instantiated from a software product line.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S. in Engineering Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer and Information Science

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Shatnawi, Hazim Husain

Contributors dc:contributor

• Conrad Cunningham
• Jianxia Xue
• P. Tobin Maginnis

• Domain Analysis
• Domain Engineering
• Feature Models
• Software Engineering
• Software Product Lines
• Software Reuse
• Engineering

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/447

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-1446