Software product line oriented feature map

Abstract

The core idea of software product line engineering is to develop a reusable infrastructure that supports the software development of a family of products. On the base of domain analysis, feature modeling identifies commonalities and variability of software products in terms of features to provide an acknowledged abstract to various stakeholders. The concept of feature map is proposed to perfect feature model. It supports customized feature dependencies and constraint expresses, provides the capability to navigate and locate the resource entities of features. Ontology is introduced as the representation basis for the meta-model of feature maps. By the means of selecting features to construct the reusable infrastructure, the components of feature implementation are rapidly located and assembled to produce a family of software products meeting certain dependencies and constraints. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.