Using Binary Strings for Comparing Products from Software-intensive Systems Product Lines

Mike Mannion, Hermann Kaindl

2021

Abstract

The volume, variety and velocity of products in software-intensive systems product lines is increasing. One challenge is to understand the range of similarity between products to evaluate its impact on product line management. This paper contributes to product line management by presenting a product similarity evaluation process in which (i) a product configured from a product line feature model is represented as a weighted binary string (ii) the overall similarity between products is compared using the Jaccard Coefficient similarity metric (iii) the significance of individual features and feature combinations to product similarity is explored by modifying the weights. We propose a method for automatically allocating weights to features depending on their position in a product line feature model, although we do not claim that this allocation method nor the use of the Jaccard Coefficient is optimal. We illustrate our ideas with mobile phone worked examples.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mannion M. and Kaindl H. (2021). Using Binary Strings for Comparing Products from Software-intensive Systems Product Lines. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-509-8, pages 257-266. DOI: 10.5220/0010441002570266

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis21,
author={Mike Mannion and Hermann Kaindl},
title={Using Binary Strings for Comparing Products from Software-intensive Systems Product Lines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2021},
pages={257-266},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010441002570266},
isbn={978-989-758-509-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Using Binary Strings for Comparing Products from Software-intensive Systems Product Lines
SN - 978-989-758-509-8
AU - Mannion M.
AU - Kaindl H.
PY - 2021
SP - 257
EP - 266
DO - 10.5220/0010441002570266