FDMD: Feature-Driven Methodology Development

Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezave, Raman Ramsin

2015

Abstract

Situational Method Engineering (SME) is a branch of software engineering which helps develop bespoke methodologies to fit the specific characteristics of the software project at hand. As in software development, SME too involves rigorous Requirements Engineering (RE), so much so that if requirements elicitation and definition is mishandled in any way, methodology development will most likely fail as a result. In this paper, we propose a Feature-driven methodology for SME; in this SME methodology, the requirements of the target methodology are captured as Features. First introduced in the agile FDD (Feature-Driven Development) methodology, Features are fully object-oriented and provide all the benefits that the object-oriented paradigm has to offer. Due to the object-oriented nature of Features and the rest of its deliverables, our proposed Feature-Driven Methodology Development (FDMD) process is fully seamless; this also facilitates the development of tool support for the methodology which is produced by applying FDMD.

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Mahdavi-Hezave R. and Ramsin R. (2015). FDMD: Feature-Driven Methodology Development . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-100-7, pages 229-237. DOI: 10.5220/0005384202290237


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@conference{enase15,
author={Rezvan Mahdavi-Hezave and Raman Ramsin},
title={FDMD: Feature-Driven Methodology Development},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2015},
pages={229-237},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005384202290237},
isbn={978-989-758-100-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - FDMD: Feature-Driven Methodology Development
SN - 978-989-758-100-7
AU - Mahdavi-Hezave R.
AU - Ramsin R.
PY - 2015
SP - 229
EP - 237
DO - 10.5220/0005384202290237