APPLIES: A framework for evaluAting organization's motivation and preparation for adopting product lines

Rincón, Luisa; Mazo, Raúl; Salinesi, Camille

doi:10.1109/rcis.2018.8406641

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“…As an alternative we created APPLIES [35], a framework for evaluAting organization's motivation and Preparation for adoPting product LInES. This framework allows stakeholders to assess and prioritize factors that motivate the organization to adopt a SPL.…”

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Evaluating Company’s Readiness for Adopting Product Line Engineering: a Second Evaluation Round

Rincón

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Salinesi

2018

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Product lines have emerged in the software industry as an attractive approach to perform planned reuse of code. Nevertheless, a product line solution is not appropriate in all cases and also requires some conditions to be implemented successfully. The literature offers several contributions regarding the adoption of product lines. However, only a few of them are able to support decision-makers in making informed decisions in favor of or against following this approach. We proposed APPLIES, a framework for evaluating the organization's motivation and preparation for adopting product lines. This article presents the second version of the APPLIES framework as well as the second iteration of the evaluation of this approach. This evaluation consisted of (i) a workshop with a practitioner who had experience in adopting the product line production approach and; (ii) a review of the content by five product line experts. The results obtained from the evaluation resulted in modifications to the framework content, mainly to simplify the statements and eliminate redundant elements. Also, we detected new functionalities and modifications that we expect to be resolved in the following evaluation iterations. Further evaluations and improvements are needed to mature the framework. Moreover, we expect to incorporate APPLIES into a process that covers the aspects that a company must consider before deciding to adopt this production paradigm.

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“…This preliminary evaluation led to the identification of minor issues such as unclear definitions that produced misunderstandings. Details of this iteration were published in [35].…”

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Evaluating Company’s Readiness for Adopting Product Line Engineering: a Second Evaluation Round

Rincón

Mazo

Salinesi

2018

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“…Similarly, Rincón et al (2019) assess to what extent their recently proposed APPLIES framework (Rincón et al 2018) for deciding on the adoption of SPLE is useful in industry. Rincón et al focus on similar research questions as we do, reporting to what extent their framework is perceived useful, what improvements the organization achieved, and what lessons they learned-based on two workshops with employees of the organization.…”

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Software product-line engineering is arguably one of the most successful methods for establishing large portfolios of software variants in an application domain. However, despite the benefits, establishing a product line requires substantial upfront investments into a software platform with a proper product-line architecture, into new software-engineering processes (domain engineering and application engineering), into business strategies with commercially successful product-line visions and financial planning, as well as into re-organization of development teams. Moreover, establishing a full-fledged product line is not always possible or desired, and thus organizations often adopt product-line engineering only to an extent that deemed necessary or was possible. However, understanding the current state of adoption, namely, the maturity or performance of product-line engineering in an organization, is challenging, while being crucial to steer investments. To this end, several measurement methods have been proposed in the literature, with the most prominent one being the Family Evaluation Framework (FEF), introduced almost two decades ago. Unfortunately, applying it is not straightforward, and the benefits of using it have not been assessed so far. We present an experience report of applying the FEF to nine medium- to large-scale product lines in the avionics domain. We discuss how we tailored and executed the FEF, together with the relevant adaptations and extensions we needed to perform. Specifically, we elicited the data for the FEF assessment with 27 interviews over a period of 11 months. We discuss experiences and assess the benefits of using the FEF, aiming at helping other organizations assessing their practices for engineering their portfolios of software variants.

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“…Decision-makers can use this information to identify why product line engineering would or would not be convenient for their business. Space restrictions prevent the full presentation of APPLIES in this article, but full details are available in previous publications [15,16].…”

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“…In previous work we proposed APPLIES, a framework that helps companies to self-assess the convenience of adopting PLE [15,16]. To this end, this framework helps companies to evaluate their motivation to make the change and their preparedness to carry it out successfully 1 .…”

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A multi-company empirical evaluation of a framework that evaluates the convenience of adopting product line engineering

Rincón

Mazo

Salinesi

2020

Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B

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Companies considering adopting a product line engineering approach should ideally analyze the pros and cons to determine the sound reasons for this decision. In order to support this analysis, in previous work we proposed the APPLIES evaluation framework. This framework provides information to evaluate the convenience of adopting a product line engineering approach. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of APPLIES. This experience includes 18 potential practitioners that used the framework to evaluate the convenience of adopting product line engineering in 19 different companies. The collected evidence was used to evaluate the perceived usefulness, intention to use and ease of use of APPLIES. The results presented increase confidence that APPLIESis a useful tool, but also identify some possibilities for improvement. In addition, four categories for classifying potential adopters of product line engineering emerged during the analysis of the results: unprepared adopter, potential adopter, ready adopter, and unmotivated adopter. These categories could be useful to classify companies that are considering adopting product line engineering. CCS CONCEPTS • General and reference → Empirical studies; • Software and its engineering → Software product lines.

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APPLIES: A framework for evaluAting organization's motivation and preparation for adopting product lines

Cited by 9 publications

References 56 publications

Evaluating Company’s Readiness for Adopting Product Line Engineering: a Second Evaluation Round

Evaluating Company’s Readiness for Adopting Product Line Engineering: a Second Evaluation Round

Software product-line evaluation in the large

A multi-company empirical evaluation of a framework that evaluates the convenience of adopting product line engineering

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