RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Software product line engineering: a practical experience
A1 Horcas-Aguilera, José Miguel
A1 Fuentes-Fernández, Lidia
A1 Pinto-Alarcón, Mónica
K1 Software
AB The lack of mature tool support is one of the main reasons that make the industry to be reluctant to adopt Software Product Line (SPL) approaches. A number of systematic literature reviews exist that identify the main characteristics offered by existing tools and the SPL phases in which they can be applied. However, these reviews do not really help to understand if those tools are offering what is really needed to apply SPLs to complex projects. These studies are mainly based on information extracted from the tool documentation or published papers. In this paper, we follow a different approach, in which we firstly identify those characteristics that are currently essential for the development of an SPL, and secondly analyze whether the tools provide or not support for those characteristics. We focus on those tools that satisfy certain selection criteria (e.g., they can be downloaded and are ready to be used). The paper presents a state of practice with the availability and usability of the existing tools for SPL, and defines different roadmaps that allow carrying out a complete SPL process with the existing tool support.
YR 2019
FD 2019-09-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/18293
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/18293
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.Magic P12-TIC1814, HADAS TIN2015-64841-R (cofinanciado con fondos FEDER), MEDEA RTI2018-099213-B-I00 (cofinanciado con fondos FEDER), TASOVA MCIU-AEI TIN2017-90644-REDT
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026