Release Planning with Feature Trees: Industrial Case
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Samuel Fricker |
| Title: | Release Planning with Feature Trees: Industrial Case |
| Conference name: | International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality |
| Year: | 2012 |
| City: | Essen, Germany |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Computing (Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation) School of Computing S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/com |
| Authors e-mail: | samuel.fricker@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | [Context and motivation] Requirements catalogues for software release planning are often not complete and homogeneous. Current release planning approaches, however, assume such commitment to detail – at least implicitly. [Question/problem] We evaluate how to relax these expectations, while at the same time reducing release planning effort and increasing decision-making flexibility. [Principal ideas/results] Feature trees capture AND, OR, and REQUIRES relationships between requirements. Such requirements structuring can be used to hide incompleteness and to support abstraction. [Contribution] The paper describes how to utilize feature trees for planning the releases of an evolving software solution and evaluates the effects of the approach on effort, decision-making, and trust with an industrial case. |
| Subject: | Software Engineering\General |
| Keywords: | features, abstraction, requirements dependencies, release planning, roadmapping, case study |
