Decision support for adopting SPLE with transit-PL

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2013
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SPLC '13 Workshops Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference co-located workshops
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ACM
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150 - 154
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English
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Conference Paper
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It is generally acknowledged that the decision to adopt a software product line engineering (SPLE) approach needs to be performed carefully due to the di• erent risks involved in taking such an important decision. To mitigate the potential risks of the transition to SPLE, several studies have been proposed that include many di• erent rules for analyzing the feasibility of the SPLE adoption and the selection of transition process. However, it is not easy to apply these manually and likewise provide a proper decision with the corresponding justification. In this paper, we propose the tool Transit-PL, a web based decision support system for analyzing the feasibility of SPLE for an organization and selecting the appropriate transition strategy. Transit-PL provides a framework to build particular decision support system for selected strategies using di• erent types of questions and corresponding rules and set of answers. Copyright 2013 ACM.

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Decision support systems, Software product line engineering, Decision supports, Potential risks, Software Product Line Engineering(SPLE), Software product line engineerings, Transition process, Web-based decision support systems, Artificial intelligence, Computer software, Software design, Decision support systems
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