Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2011
Volume
13
Issue
4
Journal
Information Systems Frontiers
First Page
543
URL with Digital Object Identifier
10.1007/s10796-010-9230-8
Last Page
560
Abstract
In the recent past, software product line engineering has become one of the most promising practices in software industry with the potential to substantially increase the software development productivity. Software product line engineering approach spans the dimensions of business, architecture, software engineering process and organization. The increasing popularity of software product line engineering in the software industry necessitates a process maturity evaluation methodology. Accordingly, this paper presents a business maturity model of software product line, which is a methodology to evaluate the current maturity of the business dimension of a software product line in an organization. This model examines the coordination between product line engineering and the business aspects of software product line. It evaluates the maturity of the business dimension of software product line as a function of how a set of business practices are aligned with product line engineering in an organization. Using the model presented in this paper, we conducted two case studies and reported the assessment results. This research contributes towards establishing a comprehensive and unified strategy for a process maturity evaluation of software product lines.
Citation of this paper:
@article{DBLP:journals/isf/AhmedC11, author = {Faheem Ahmed and Luiz Fernando Capretz}, title = {A business maturity model of software product line engineering}, journal = {Information Systems Frontiers}, volume = {13}, number = {4}, year = {2011}, pages = {543-560}, ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-010-9230-8}, bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }
