TY - JOUR
T1 - A systematic literature review on the semi-automatic configuration of extended product lines
AU - Ochoa Venegas, Lina
AU - González-Rojas, Oscar
AU - Alves Pereira, Juliana
AU - Castro, Harold
AU - Saake, Gunter
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Product line engineering has become essential in mass customisation given its ability to reduce production costs and time to market, and to improve product quality and customer satisfaction. In product line literature, mass customisation is known as product configuration. Currently, there are multiple heterogeneous contributions in the product line configuration domain. However, a secondary study that shows an overview of the progress, trends, and gaps faced by researchers in this domain is still missing. In this context, we provide a comprehensive systematic literature review to discover which approaches exist to support the configuration process of extended product lines and how these approaches perform in practice. Extend product lines consider non-functional properties in the product line modelling. We compare and classify a total of 66 primary studies from 2000 to 2016. Mainly, we give an in-depth view of techniques used by each work, how these techniques are evaluated and their main shortcomings. As main results, our review identified i) the need to improve the quality of the evaluation of existing approaches, ii) a lack of hybrid solutions to support multiple configuration constraints, and iii) a need to improve scalability and performance conditions.
AB - Product line engineering has become essential in mass customisation given its ability to reduce production costs and time to market, and to improve product quality and customer satisfaction. In product line literature, mass customisation is known as product configuration. Currently, there are multiple heterogeneous contributions in the product line configuration domain. However, a secondary study that shows an overview of the progress, trends, and gaps faced by researchers in this domain is still missing. In this context, we provide a comprehensive systematic literature review to discover which approaches exist to support the configuration process of extended product lines and how these approaches perform in practice. Extend product lines consider non-functional properties in the product line modelling. We compare and classify a total of 66 primary studies from 2000 to 2016. Mainly, we give an in-depth view of techniques used by each work, how these techniques are evaluated and their main shortcomings. As main results, our review identified i) the need to improve the quality of the evaluation of existing approaches, ii) a lack of hybrid solutions to support multiple configuration constraints, and iii) a need to improve scalability and performance conditions.
KW - Extended product line
KW - Product configuration
KW - Systematic literature review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050750643&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jss.2018.07.054
DO - 10.1016/j.jss.2018.07.054
M3 - Article
VL - 144
SP - 511
EP - 532
JO - Journal of Systems and Software
JF - Journal of Systems and Software
SN - 0164-1212
ER -