TRACING VARIATIONS IN SOFTWARE PRODUCT FAMILIES.

The article discusses tracing variations within a family of software products. Variations are modifications in features that make a product suitable to a particular market or audience, and tracing them enhances the knowledge integration required to create further variations. Low-end tracing meets or...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 12; pp. 68 - 74
Autores principales: Mohan, Kannan, Ramesh, Balasubramaniam
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2007
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Sumario:The article discusses tracing variations within a family of software products. Variations are modifications in features that make a product suitable to a particular market or audience, and tracing them enhances the knowledge integration required to create further variations. Low-end tracing meets organizational demands or minimal customer requirements, while system quality and customer satisfaction are the aims of high-end tracing. Firms that employ a product family engineering approach and that wish to effectively integrate individual and collective knowledge need to approach high-end tracing in a systematic and customizable way.