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iMER-FM: Iterative Process of System Feature Model Extraction from the Requirements
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Abstract
Software product line engineering (SPLE) is a paradigm to promote systematic software reuse. A Feature Model (FM) is a common means to illustrate the commonality and variability of software products in a family. In most existing FM extraction approaches, keywords in the requirement document or certain types of system behavior or external events are considered features. The resulting FM is a combination of user activities and system actions (SAs), making it hard to understand. In this paper, we present an automatic approach to generate a product line FM from multiple requirement documents. We consider user activity and SAs separately in our approach and focus on the expected behaviors of the software system, together with the data being processed. The resulting FM clearly illustrates the expected functionalities of the software system and their variability in the product line. We also compared our approach with existing techniques by processing the same textual documents, and noted improvements in our results.
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