A Requirements Elicitation Tool for Cloud-Based ERP Software Product Line
Mohamed A. Abd Elmoniem, Eman S. Nasr, Mervat H. Gheith · 2017
Software Product Line (SPL) 1 is a very promising trend of software reusability. It could be applied in different fields in order to enhance and facilitate the software development process. In the last years, SPLs have broken into Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. An increasing need showed up for techniques, approaches and tools that combine SPL with ERP. Cloud ERP systems offer many benefits for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME). Managing the requirements elicitation process for Cloud ERP SPLs is a challenging process that faces many difficulties, such as the indirect interaction and the larger context of the target consumers. Facilitating the requirements elicitation process for cloud-based ERP SPLs by using automated tools will help to solve the faced difficulties. To the best of our knowledge, in the context of ERP SPLs, there are no tools for eliciting the requirements of cloud--based ERP SPLs nor even for ERP SPL. This paper exploits the advantages of the Form-Based Model (FBM) as a conceptual model to integrate it with cloud based ERP SPL. In addition, based on this integration, the paper presents a tool for eliciting the requirements of cloud-based ERP SPLs