An architecture process maturity model of software product line engineering

Abstract

Abstract:Software architecture has been a key research area in the software engineering community due to its significant role in creating high quality software. The trend of developing product lines rather than single products has made the software product line a viable option in the industry. Software product line architecture is regarded as one of the crucial components in the product lines, since all of the resulting products share this common architecture. The increased popularity of software product lines demands a process maturity evaluation methodology. Consequently, this paper presents an architecture process maturity model for software product line engineering to evaluate the current maturity of the product line architecture development process in an organization. Assessment questionnaires and a rating methodology comprise the framework of this model. The objective of the questionnaires is to collect information about the software product line architecture development process. Thus, in general this work contributes towards the establishment of a comprehensive and unified strategy for the process maturity evaluation of software product line engineering. Furthermore, we conducted two case studies and reported the assessment results, which show the maturity of the architecture development process in two organizations.

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

“…Table 1 in Appendix presents the adoption drivers of the motivation assessment model for the version V2.0.a1 of APPLIES. The table refers to sources [10], [13], [29], [48]- [50], [54]- [58], [63]- [65], and [67].…”

“…Table 2 in Appendix presents the dimensions, criteria and sub-criteria that belong to APPLIES version 2.0.a1. The table refers to sources [12], [13], [15], [16], [18], [22], [26], [27], [29], [31], [32], [39], [48], [49], [52], [54]- [56], [58], [60], [63], [64], [67]- [69], and [70]- [80].…”

“…The reference numbers in tables comply with the list of references of the article. The organization retains its current customers due to the variability among their products [13] C6…”

“…The organization gains new customers due to the variability of their products [13]  APPLIES v1.0.a2…”

Aplicação do Modelo Squad Health Check em times ágeis de uma instituição financeira

“…Maturity Model, buscam permitir a avaliação de diretrizes que permitam inserir mudanças no processo de desenvolvimento propriamente dito com a finalidade de promover melhorias (Ahmed & Capretz, 2011). Modelos de maturidade buscam estabelecer níveis de desenvolvimento de processos, para melhoria na organização e desta maneira identificar medida que permita estabelecer o grau de maturidade.…”