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A 3D Visualisation to Enhance Cognition in Software Product Line Engineering

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2009)

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Software Product Line (SPL) Engineering is a development paradigm where core artefacts are developed and subsequently configured into different software products dependent on a particular customer’s requirements. In industrial product lines, the scale of the configuration (variability management) can become extremely complex and very difficult to manage. Visualisation is widely used in software engineering and has proven useful to amplify cognition in data intensive applications. Adopting this approach within software product line engineering can help stakeholders in supporting essential work tasks by enhancing their understanding of large and complex product lines. In this paper we present our research into the application of visualisation techniques and cognitive theory to address SPL complexity and to enhance cognition in support of the SPL engineering processes. Specifically we present a 3D visualisation approach to enhance stakeholder cognition and thus support variability management and decision making during feature configuration.

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  1. Lero, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Ciarán Cawley, Goetz Botterweck, Patrick Healy & Saad Bin Abid

  2. Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany

    Steffen Thiel

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  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

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  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

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  5. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama-shi, 338-8570, 338-8570, Japan

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  6. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

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Cawley, C., Botterweck, G., Healy, P., Abid, S.B., Thiel, S. (2009). A 3D Visualisation to Enhance Cognition in Software Product Line Engineering. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5876. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10520-3_82

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