by Rick Rabiser, Wolfgang Heider, Christoph Elsner, Martin Lehofer, Paul Grünbacher, Christa Schwanninger
Abstract:
In software product line engineering various stakeholders like sales and marketing people, product managers, and technical writers are involved in creating and adapting documents such as offers, contracts, commercial conditions, technical documents, or user manuals. In practice stakeholders often need to adapt these documents manually during product derivation. This adaptation is, however, tedious and error-prone and can easily lead to inconsistencies. Despite some automation there is usually a lack of general concepts and there are "islands of automation" that are hardly integrated. Also, research on product lines has so far often neglected the handling of documents. To address these issues, we developed a flexible approach for automatically generating product-specific documents based on variability models. We applied the approach to two industrial product lines of different maturity using the decision-oriented product line engineering tool suite DOPLER.
Reference:
A Flexible Approach for Generating Product-Specific Documents in Product Lines (Rick Rabiser, Wolfgang Heider, Christoph Elsner, Martin Lehofer, Paul Grünbacher, Christa Schwanninger), In Proceedings 14th Int'l Conference on Software Product Lines: Going Beyond (SPLC 2010), Jeju Island, South Korea, September 13-17 (Jan Bosch, Jaejoon Lee, eds.), Springer, volume 6287, 2010.
Bibtex Entry:
@Conference{Rabiser2010a,
author = {Rick Rabiser and Wolfgang Heider and Christoph Elsner and Martin
Lehofer and Paul Grünbacher and Christa Schwanninger},
title = {A Flexible Approach for Generating Product-Specific Documents in
Product Lines},
booktitle = {Proceedings 14th Int'l Conference on Software Product Lines: Going
Beyond (SPLC 2010), Jeju Island, South Korea, September 13-17},
year = {2010},
editor = {Jan Bosch and Jaejoon Lee},
volume = {6287},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
pages = {47-61},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {In software product line engineering various stakeholders like sales
and marketing people, product managers, and technical writers are
involved in creating and adapting documents such as offers, contracts,
commercial conditions, technical documents, or user manuals. In practice
stakeholders often need to adapt these documents manually during
product derivation. This adaptation is, however, tedious and error-prone
and can easily lead to inconsistencies. Despite some automation there
is usually a lack of general concepts and there are "islands of automation"
that are hardly integrated. Also, research on product lines has so
far often neglected the handling of documents. To address these issues,
we developed a flexible approach for automatically generating product-specific
documents based on variability models. We applied the approach to
two industrial product lines of different maturity using the decision-oriented
product line engineering tool suite DOPLER.},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15579-6_4},
isbn = {978-3-642-15578-9},
keywords = {CD Lab ASE}
}