TY - GEN
T1 - A comparative survey of economic models for software product lines
AU - Ali, Muhammad Sarmad
AU - Babar, Muhammad Ali
AU - Schmid, Klaus
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Software product line engineering aims at achieving systematic reuse by exploiting commonalities among related products in order to reduce cost and time-tomarket. Before adopting this approach, organizations are likely to estimate the benefits they can expect to achieve and the level of investment required to transition to product line engineering. Several economic models and analysis approaches have been developed in order to help make a sound business case. There is a need to review the existing approaches in order to better understand the overall landscape of economic models. To this objective, this paper provides an overview of some existing economic models and discusses important issues and directions in product line economic modeling.
AB - Software product line engineering aims at achieving systematic reuse by exploiting commonalities among related products in order to reduce cost and time-tomarket. Before adopting this approach, organizations are likely to estimate the benefits they can expect to achieve and the level of investment required to transition to product line engineering. Several economic models and analysis approaches have been developed in order to help make a sound business case. There is a need to review the existing approaches in order to better understand the overall landscape of economic models. To this objective, this paper provides an overview of some existing economic models and discusses important issues and directions in product line economic modeling.
KW - Economic models
KW - Software product lines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=74549139714&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SEAA.2009.89
DO - 10.1109/SEAA.2009.89
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:74549139714
SN - 9780769537849
T3 - Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO
SP - 275
EP - 278
BT - EUROMICRO2009 - Proceedings of the 35th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2009
T2 - EUROMICRO2009 - 35th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2009
Y2 - 27 August 2009 through 29 August 2009
ER -