Modeling and Managing Tacit Product Line Requirements Knowl...

Modeling and Managing Tacit Product Line Requirements Knowledge

inproceedings
Reinhard Stoiber, Martin Glinz
The success of very large product lines systems with globally distributed stakeholders often builds significantly on the implicit knowledge of individuals. Final products are typically built by integrating numerous detailed specifi- cations of subsystems. But how exactly all these parts can and need to be integrated to build valid end products is often left unspecified and to numerous discussions, reviews and the expertise of senior architects and product managers. Building a high-level product line requirements model that explicitly and formally specifies common and vari- able requirements, their precise integration semantics and the constraints for selecting variable features helps signif- icantly to manage this crucial and often tacit requirements knowledge. Based on an industrial exemplar we motivate and demonstrate such an approach and discuss our early findings regarding knowledge and rationale management in product line requirements engineering.
Modeling and Managing Tacit Product Line Requirements Knowledge
short paper
2009
IEEE Computer Society
Atlanta, GA, USA
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Managing Requirements Engineering Knowledge (MaRK'09)
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