TY - GEN
T1 - A 3D visualisation to enhance cognition in software product line engineering
AU - Cawley, Ciarán
AU - Botterweck, Goetz
AU - Healy, Patrick
AU - Abid, Saad Bin
AU - Thiel, Steffen
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Software Product Line (SPL) Engineering is a development paradigm where core artefacts are developed and subsequently configured into different software products dependent on a particular customer's requirements. In industrial product lines, the scale of the configuration (variability management) can become extremely complex and very difficult to manage. Visualisation is widely used in software engineering and has proven useful to amplify cognition in data intensive applications. Adopting this approach within software product line engineering can help stakeholders in supporting essential work tasks by enhancing their understanding of large and complex product lines. In this paper we present our research into the application of visualisation techniques and cognitive theory to address SPL complexity and to enhance cognition in support of the SPL engineering processes. Specifically we present a 3D visualisation approach to enhance stakeholder cognition and thus support variability management and decision making during feature configuration.
AB - Software Product Line (SPL) Engineering is a development paradigm where core artefacts are developed and subsequently configured into different software products dependent on a particular customer's requirements. In industrial product lines, the scale of the configuration (variability management) can become extremely complex and very difficult to manage. Visualisation is widely used in software engineering and has proven useful to amplify cognition in data intensive applications. Adopting this approach within software product line engineering can help stakeholders in supporting essential work tasks by enhancing their understanding of large and complex product lines. In this paper we present our research into the application of visualisation techniques and cognitive theory to address SPL complexity and to enhance cognition in support of the SPL engineering processes. Specifically we present a 3D visualisation approach to enhance stakeholder cognition and thus support variability management and decision making during feature configuration.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72549107141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-10520-3_82
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-10520-3_82
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72549107141
SN - 364210519X
SN - 9783642105197
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 857
EP - 868
BT - Advances in Visual Computing - 5th International Symposium, ISVC 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, ISVC 2009
Y2 - 30 November 2009 through 2 December 2009
ER -