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Quantifying value in software product line design

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John D. McGregor,

J. Yates Monteith,

Jie ZhangAuthors Info & Claims

SPLC '11: Proceedings of the 15th International Software Product Line Conference, Volume 2

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2019136.2019182

Published: 21 August 2011 Publication History

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A software product line is a strategic investment for an organization. Besides the initial decision to use a product line approach other strategic decisions are made, including which variations to accommodate. In this paper we present an adaptation of an equation for computing option values. The equation can be used to understand the economic impact of adding a variation point to the product line architecture. The equation was exercised on multiple sets of hypothetical data and and produced the expected changes from one data set to another. In the future the equation will be validated with data from real projects. We describe some practical sources of values for the parameters of the equation.

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Allian ASena BNakagawa EHung CPapadopoulos G(2019)Evaluating variability at the software architecture levelProceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/3297280.3297511(2354-2361)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297280.3297511
Klein JChastek GCohen SKazman RMcGregor J(2012)An early look at defining variability requirements for system of systems platforms2012 Second IEEE International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Systems, Services, and Systems-of-Systems (RESS)10.1109/RES4.2012.6347693(30-33)Online publication date: Sep-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/RES4.2012.6347693

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Quantifying value in software product line design
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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SPLC '11: Proceedings of the 15th International Software Product Line Conference, Volume 2

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DOI:10.1145/2019136

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Allian ASena BNakagawa EHung CPapadopoulos G(2019)Evaluating variability at the software architecture levelProceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing10.1145/3297280.3297511(2354-2361)Online publication date: 8-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3297280.3297511
Klein JChastek GCohen SKazman RMcGregor J(2012)An early look at defining variability requirements for system of systems platforms2012 Second IEEE International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Systems, Services, and Systems-of-Systems (RESS)10.1109/RES4.2012.6347693(30-33)Online publication date: Sep-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/RES4.2012.6347693

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