On the Requirements and Design Decisions of an In-House Component-Based SPL Automated Environment.
Elder Macedo Rodrigues, Leonardo Teixeira Passos, Leopoldo Teixeira, Avelino F. Zorzo, Flávio Moreira de Oliveira, Rodrigo Saad · PUCRS Repository (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) · 2014
Software product line adoption has many challenges in industrial settings. A particular challenge regards the use of offthe-shelf tools to support this process, since these tools usually do not fully address some company’s specific needs. To elicit concrete requirements and provide tool vendors and implementers with direct feedback, we avail from our experience in developing a software product line to derive testing tools for a laboratory of a global IT company (currently set as a pilot study). In this paper, we present such requirements and argue that existing tools fail to address all of them. In addition, we present our design decisions in creating an in-house solution meeting the specific needs of the partner company. We also highlight that these decisions help in building a body of knowledge that can be reused in different settings sharing similar requirements.