TY  - THES 
TI  - Quality-driven software product lines
PB  - Universidad Icesi
PY  - 2015
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10906/77492
AB  - In software product line engineering, the customers mostly concentrate on the
functionalities of the target product during product configuration. The quality attributes
of a target product, such as security and performance, are often assessed until the final
product is generated. However, it might be very costly to fix the problem if it is found
that the generated product cannot satisfy the customers’ quality requirements. Several
approaches have been proposed to deal with this issue, focusing on the assessment of a
quality attribute of a product configuration to measure the impact on a quality attribute made by the set of functional variable features selected in a configuration. Nevertheless,
these approaches are only interested in characterizing the relationships among quality
attributes and product functionalities to provide useful information about predicting the
quality of the target product, relying on the previous existence of the software
components that provide such measures and values. Our approach provides a SPL that
uses model-driven techniques to automate derivation of product line members,
considering promotion of quality attributes during this process by means of software
enterprise patterns. In concrete we provide the following contributions: i) a domain
metamodel that enables defining functional scope of product line members, ii) a quality
attributes variability model to handle definition of quality scope of product line members,
iii) a Reference Architecture (characterization of software enterprise design patterns from
the perspective of the quality attributes they promote or inhibit) to construct product line
members that exposes explicit variation points related to quality attributes and their
relationships with functional features, iv) and tool support based on a generation engine
to automatically construct product line members, following the Reference Architecture
constraints. An illustrative example based on a Project Management software product line
is presented to demonstrate how the proposed approach works.
KW  - Systems engineering
KW  - Telecomunicaciones
KW  - Líneas de producto de software
KW  - Desarrollo de software
KW  - Sistemas de software
KW  - Gestión de Informática y Telecomunicaciones
KW  - Departamento Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones
KW  - Quality attributes
KW  - Model-driven
KW  - Software design patterns
KW  - Code generation
KW  - Producción intelectual registrada - Universidad Icesi
ER  -