Value-Based Portfolio Optimization for Software Product Lines

Müller, Johannes

doi:10.1109/splc.2011.18

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“…Economic models SIMPLE [4,31,33], COPLIMO [20,39,51,55,56] and others [52,57] estimate with Equation 10 7 the cost savings (CSAV) for building a family of products as a PL (CPL) versus building them as standalone products (CNPL).…”

Section: Cost Savings Of a Plmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Literature Review on Feature Diagram Product Counting and Its Usage in Software Product Line Economic Models

Heradio

Fernández-Amorós²,

Cerrada

et al. 2013

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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In software product line engineering, feature diagrams are a popular means to represent the similarities and differences within a family of related systems. In addition, feature diagrams implicitly model valuable information that can be used in economic models to estimate the cost savings of a product line. In particular, this paper reviews existing proposals on computing the total number of products modeled with a feature diagram and, given a feature, the number of products that implement it. The paper also reviews the economic information that can be estimated when such numbers are known. Thus, this paper contributes by bringing together previously-disparate streams of work: the automated analysis of feature diagrams and economic models for product lines.

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Section: Cost Savings Of a Plmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Literature Review on Feature Diagram Product Counting and Its Usage in Software Product Line Economic Models

Heradio

Fernández-Amorós²,

Cerrada

et al. 2013

Int. J. Soft. Eng. Knowl. Eng.

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“…n), there is a product pi satisfying K i , pi |∼ Gi, Si, Qi with pi being a product member of the SPL. As highlighted by Müller, methods such as the conjoint analysis can be used to evaluate a customer's WTP [4]. However, further considerations about the identification process of customer needs and the method to be used in order to evaluate them is out of the scope of this paper.…”

Section: Software Product Line Revenuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A feature used in a product for a particular segment will have to be reused from the CAB or developed exclusively for this product. This is stated in equation (4). However before reusing a feature, it has to be integrated in the CAB (5).…”

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“…Recently, J. Müller suggested a mathematical program to optimize the product portfolio on the basis of a profit maximization objective [4]. His model is based on previous work in product lines (i.e.…”

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“…As highlighted by recent reviews, current scoping methods fail in providing optimization methods. Some provide optimization for the product portfolio scope but there are no domain or feature optimization methods yet [4] [5].…”

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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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