Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S. in Engineering Science
Department
Computer and Information Science
First Advisor
Conrad Cunningham
Second Advisor
Jianxia Xue
Third Advisor
P. Tobin Maginnis
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
The leading strategies for systematic software reuse focus on reuse of domain knowledge. One such strategy is software product line engineering. This strategy selects a set of reusable software components that form the core around which software products in a domain are built. Feature modeling is a process that enables engineers to identify these core assets, in particular the com(e.g., shared) and variable features of products. The focus of this thesis is to give an overview of the feature modeling process by introducing feature diagrams. Feature diagrams capture and represent comand variable properties (features) of the software products in a domain, focusing on properties that may vary, which are further used to produce different software products. We present practical examples that show how feature models are used to represent a set of valid composition of features (configurations), in which each configuration can be considered as a specification of a software system instantiated from a software product line.
Recommended Citation
Shatnawi, Hazim Husain, "Modeling Software Product Lines Using Feature Diagrams" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 447.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/447
Concentration/Emphasis
Emphasis: Computer Science