Process-driven feature modeling for variability management of project environment configurations
Thomas Moser, Stefan Biffl, Dietmar Winkler · 2010
Technical projects environments, i.e., sets of methods and tools that support an engineering project, are software-intensive systems that need to be configured according to software process and project characteristics. Tailored software processes, e.g., based on the V Modell XT framework, specify project process steps and drive method and tool selection with a focus on individual feature requirements. Therefore, feature models can support the automated selection and configuration of methods and tools. For designing an effective and efficient engineering project environment, project managers and engineering domain experts can semantically integrate a given set of engineering tools and project data models in a flexible way. In this paper, we analyze challenges of managing engineering tool variability in context of engineering project environment configurations and present a conceptual approach using semantic modeling of project requirements and tool capabilities.