QFD-PPP: Product Line Portfolio Planning Using Quality Function Deployment

Helferich, Andreas; Herzwurm, Georg; Schockert, Sixten

doi:10.1007/11554844_19

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“…Schmid proposed PuLSE‐Eco V2.0 as an approach to define product line scoping, consisting of three main components: (1) product line mapping, which uses as input a product portfolio and generates high‐level description of the product line and the domain model; (2) domain potential assessment, by evaluating reuse benefits and risks to then select domain features; and (3) reuse infrastructure scoping, to describe how core assets are accessed by reusers. Additionally, Helferich et al proposed a product portfolio planning to find preliminary information used in software processes, such technical innovations, market demand, and cultural and legal developments. This was also considered in the work of John, who proposed a method to specify an SPL scope through commonality and variability extraction.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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PAxSPL: A feature retrieval process for software product line reengineering

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Software product lines (SPLs) are a well-known solution to systematically create reusable software products. Among the approaches to create an SPL, the extractive approach is usually used when the organization already has a set of similar systems. These systems are analyzed to extract, categorize, and group their common and variant features throughout the SPL reengineering process. As there are different scenario variables, such as available artifacts and team experience, the activities and techniques used to perform these tasks may change. This may increase the effort and decrease the quality of retrieved features when users with low experience in SPL reengineering perform such tasks. However, there is a lack of a process supporting these tasks considering different scenarios. Therefore, we specify the Prepare, Assemble, and Execute Process for SPL Reengineering (PAxSPL), a process that provides support to prepare, assemble, and execute feature retrieval throughout the analysis of documentation and team experience. To initially evaluate PAxSPL, we conducted and reported an exploratory case study in a real development environment. The results indicated that our proposal helps in the assembly of a feature retrieval process according to user needs. Results were important to identify points for improvement in PAxSPL. We also could use the information gathered to improve the guidelines and provide this information to be used as basis of comparison for future users. KEYWORDS feature model, feature retrieval, software product line, software product line reengineering, software reengineering, software reuse 1278

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“…John and Eisenbarth identify five PPS approaches in a literature survey [5]: (QFD-PPP) [6]: uses QFD techniques to elicit required features of SPL products, attaches priorities based on questionnaires to the features, and incorporates the technical feasibility by involving engineers. Based on the customer priorities it identifies customer segments.…”

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Toward a hybrid approach to generate Software Product Line portfolios

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Neto

Britto

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

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Software Product Line (SPL) development is a new approach to software engineering that aims at the development of a whole range of products. One of the problems which hinders the adoption of that approach is related with the management of the products of the line. Additionally, the scope of a software product line is determined by the bounds of the capabilities provided by the collection of products in the product line. This introduces new challenges related to the scope problem. One of the main three different forms of scoping is the Product Portfolio Scoping (PPS). PPS aims at defining the products that should be developed as well as their key features. While this has an impact on the actual reuse opportunities, it is usually driven from marketing aspects. Defining a product portfolio by considering costumers satisfaction and cost aspects is a NP-hard problem. This work presents a hybrid approach, which combines fuzzy inference systems and the multi-objective metaheuristics NSGA-II to support product management by generating portfolios of products, based in segments of users and the development cost of the assets of the SPL. Fuzzy inference systems are used to generate development cost of an asset by using coupling, number of code lines and cyclomatic complexity and also to estimate the quality of the products generated by the optimization module of our approach. The NSGA-II metaheuristic is used to search for products minimizing the cost and maximizing the relevance of the candidate products. The results show that the proposed approach is effective in proposing the best products in terms of relevance and cost of the assets.

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“…Moreover none of them integrate the optimization of the three types of scoping. Regarding the five methods addressing the product portfolio analysis [20,21,12,22,23] only [20] also addresses asset scoping. Moreover as highlighted by J. Müller none of those five methods integrate market and cost perspectives which prevents any profitability consideration.…”

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“…The Quality Function Deployment Product Portfolio Planning suggested by Helferich [21] elicits required features of products of a SPL and asks engineers about technical feasibility. It also allows to identify customer segments.…”

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Product portfolio scope optimization based on features and goals

Gillain

Faulkner

Heymans

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 1

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In this paper we propose a mathematical program able to optimize the product portfolio scope of a software product line and sketch both a development and a release planning. Our model is based on the description of customer needs in terms of goals. We show that this model can be instantiated in several contexts such as a market customization strategy or a mass-customization strategy. It can deal with Software Product Line development from scratch as well as starting from a legacy software base. We demonstrate its applicability with an example based on a case study.

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QFD-PPP: Product Line Portfolio Planning Using Quality Function Deployment

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

PAxSPL: A feature retrieval process for software product line reengineering

PAxSPL: A feature retrieval process for software product line reengineering

Toward a hybrid approach to generate Software Product Line portfolios

Product portfolio scope optimization based on features and goals

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