My licentiate thesis will contain the following chapters and papers. There will be some formatting changes.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Status: Working on 1st draft

This is currently my main task and 1st draft of Introduction will be posted by the end of May 2009.

05/2009 Draft ready to be sent to the Examiner: Claes Wohlin

06/2009 Draft sent to the Examiner for review

Chapter 2 (P 1): Evaluating Evidence of Industry Application and Empirical Validation of Domain Analysis Solutions for Software Product Lines

Status: provisionally accepted and now working on revisions

Accepted as: Mahvish Khurum, Tony Gorschek, "A systematic review of domain analysis solutions for software product lines", Journal of Systems and Software.

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Chapter 3 (P2): Evaluating Evidence of Industry Application and Empirical Validation of Economic Solutions for Software Product Lines

Status: Complete

Published as: Mahvish Khurum, Tony Gorschek, Kent Pettersson "Systematic review of papers about economic solutions for product lines", in Proceedings of 12th international conference on software product lines (SPLC 08), Limerick, Ireland.

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Chapter 4 (P3): Utilizing Product Strategies for Requirements Triage

Status: Complete

Published as: Mahvish Khurum, Tony Gorschek, "MERTS-A Method for Early Requirements Triage and Selection Utilizing Product Strategies", in Proceedings of Asian Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 07), Nagoya, Japan.

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Chapter 5 (P4): Product Strategies in Action for Requirements Triage

Status: Complete

Published as: Mahvish Khurum, Tony Gorschek, Lefteris Angelis, Robert Feldt, "A Controlled Experiment of a Method for Early Requirements Triage Utilizing Product Strategies ", to appear in the proceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-9 June 2009.

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Chapter 6 (P5): Evaluating Alignment between Stakeholders

Status: Submitted to IEEE transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE TEM)

Published as: Mahvish Khurum, Tony Gorschek, "A Method for evaluation of Alignment of Strategies among Stakeholders (MASS)", planned to be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Engineering Managment.

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