Modeling Quality Attributes in Product Families with COVAMOF

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Modeling Quality Attributes inProduct Families
with COVAMOF

• Marco Sinnema (University of Groningen),
• Sybren Deelstra (University of Groningen),
• Jos Nijhuis (University of Groningen),
• Jan Bosch (Nokia Research Center)

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Outline

• Software Product Families
• Knowledge Externalization
• COVAMOF
• Benefits

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Software Product Families
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Software Product Families
notepad interface
mail manager
network interface
built-in editor
mail manager
network interface
file storage
database interface
Customer 1
Customer 2
word interface
mail manager
network interface
built-in editor
mail manager
network interface
database interface
file storage
Customer 3
Customer 4
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Software Product Families
Derive Product
Derive Product
Customer 1
Customer 2
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Knowledge Externalization
Document
Formalize
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Variability Modeling
Other Variability Modeling Techniques
COVAMOF
Tacit Knowledge
Documented Knowledge
Formalized Knowledge
Formalize
Document
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Example
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Example
Memory Usage
Variation points
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Benefits of COVAMOF

• Incremental Externalization
• Document Expert Knowledge
• Incorporate Existing Documentation
• Collect Reference Data
• Formalize Documented Knowledge
• Reduce Derivation Cost
• Reduce Expert Involvement
• Provide Structured Documentation
• Configuration Guidance
• Automatic Inference
• Automatic Consistency Checking
• Automatic Quality Attribute Estimation
• Tools integrate in development environment
  (Visual Studio .NET)

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The End

• Any Questions?

More Information
ECBS 2006 paper
m.sinnema_at_rug.nl
http//www.msinnema.nl/covamof
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Tool support for COVAMOF