What happened to our features? visualization and understanding of scope change dynamics in a large-scale industrial setting
Wnuk, Krzysztof LU ; Regnell, Björn LU
and Karlsson, Lena
LU
(2009)
17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
p.89-98
- Abstract
- When developing software platforms for product lines, decisions
on which features to implement are affected by factors
such as changing markets and evolving technologies. Effective
scoping thus requires continuous assessment of how changes
in the domain impact scoping decisions. Decisions may have
to be changed as circumstances change, resulting in a dynamic
evolution of the scope of software asset investments. This paper
presents an industrial case study in a large-scale setting
where a technique called Feature Survival Charts for visualization
of scoping change dynamics has been implemented and
evaluated in three projects. The evaluation... (More) - When developing software platforms for product lines, decisions
on which features to implement are affected by factors
such as changing markets and evolving technologies. Effective
scoping thus requires continuous assessment of how changes
in the domain impact scoping decisions. Decisions may have
to be changed as circumstances change, resulting in a dynamic
evolution of the scope of software asset investments. This paper
presents an industrial case study in a large-scale setting
where a technique called Feature Survival Charts for visualization
of scoping change dynamics has been implemented and
evaluated in three projects. The evaluation demonstrated that
the charts can effectively focus investigations of reasons behind
scoping decisions, valuable for future process improvements.
A set of scoping measurements is also proposed, analyzed theoretically
and evaluated empirically with data from the cases.
The conclusions by the case company practitioners are positive,
and the solution is integrated with their current requirements
engineering measurement process. (Less)
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- author
- Wnuk, Krzysztof
LU
; Regnell, Björn
LU
and Karlsson, Lena
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- requirements visualisation, requirements management, large-scale requirements engineering, empirical study
- host publication
- IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
- conference location
- Atlanta, United States
- conference dates
- 2009-09-12
- external identifiers
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- wos:000290885300009
- scopus:73549092722
- ISSN
- 1090-705X
- ISBN
- 978-0-7695-3761-0
- DOI
- 10.1109/RE.2009.32
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
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abstract = {{When developing software platforms for product lines, decisions<br/><br>
on which features to implement are affected by factors<br/><br>
such as changing markets and evolving technologies. Effective<br/><br>
scoping thus requires continuous assessment of how changes<br/><br>
in the domain impact scoping decisions. Decisions may have<br/><br>
to be changed as circumstances change, resulting in a dynamic<br/><br>
evolution of the scope of software asset investments. This paper<br/><br>
presents an industrial case study in a large-scale setting<br/><br>
where a technique called Feature Survival Charts for visualization<br/><br>
of scoping change dynamics has been implemented and<br/><br>
evaluated in three projects. The evaluation demonstrated that<br/><br>
the charts can effectively focus investigations of reasons behind<br/><br>
scoping decisions, valuable for future process improvements.<br/><br>
A set of scoping measurements is also proposed, analyzed theoretically<br/><br>
and evaluated empirically with data from the cases.<br/><br>
The conclusions by the case company practitioners are positive,<br/><br>
and the solution is integrated with their current requirements<br/><br>
engineering measurement process.}},
author = {{Wnuk, Krzysztof and Regnell, Björn and Karlsson, Lena}},
booktitle = {{IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference}},
isbn = {{978-0-7695-3761-0}},
issn = {{1090-705X}},
keywords = {{requirements visualisation; requirements management; large-scale requirements engineering; empirical study}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{89--98}},
publisher = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
title = {{What happened to our features? visualization and understanding of scope change dynamics in a large-scale industrial setting}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RE.2009.32}},
doi = {{10.1109/RE.2009.32}},
year = {{2009}},
}