Quality engineering for software product lines

软件产品线的质量工程

• 批准号: 386266-2010
• 负责人: Bagheri, Ebrahim
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Ryerson University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=528794
• 关键词: Quality; engineering; software; product; lines

The product line approach to software development is based on systematic and large-scale reuse of design and implementation artifacts such as design models or software components in order to facilitate the production process of a set of functionally similar software systems. Through reuse engineering, software product lines attempt to shorten the development time and lower software maintenance costs. Due to the nature of reuse-based application engineering technology such as software product lines, the lifespan of their artifacts is much longer in comparison to that of a single software system, and have a longer lasting effect on the software production process. This entails that inaccuracy in the product line approach can have ripple effect on the validity or usefulness of the systems developed based on its artifacts; therefore, quality engineering becomes extremely important in software product lines, and its assurance will guarantee higher degree of quality in its spawning products. However, the evaluation of all product variants of a product line is very expensive and time consuming; hence, early-stage quality assessment, measurement, and validation techniques are more desirable, which would avoid costly problems in the late stages of the software development lifecycle.

软件开发的产品线方法基于设计和实现工件（例如设计模型或软件组件）的系统化和大规模重用，以促进一组功能相似的软件系统的生产过程。软件产品线试图通过复用工程来缩短开发时间并降低软件维护成本。由于软件产品线等基于重用的应用工程技术的性质，其工件的生命周期比单个软件系统的生命周期要长得多，并且对软件生产过程有更持久的影响。这意味着产品线方法的不准确性可能会对基于其工件开发的系统的有效性或有用性产生连锁反应；因此，质量工程在软件产品线中变得极其重要，其保证将保证其衍生产品的更高质量。然而，对产品线的所有产品变型进行评估非常昂贵且耗时；因此，更需要早期阶段的质量评估、测量和验证技术，这将避免在软件开发生命周期的后期阶段出现代价高昂的问题。