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Computational Ecology and Software, 2014, 4(3): 170-182
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Towards the maturity model for feature oriented domain analysis

Muhammad Javed1, Muhammad Naeem1, Hafiz Abdul Wahab2
1Department of Information Technology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
2Department of Mathematics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

Received 5 April 2014;Accepted 10 May 2014;Published online 1 September 2014
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Abstract
Assessing the quality of a model has always been a challenge for researchers in academia and industry. The quality of a feature model is a prime factor because it is used in the development of products. A degraded feature model leads the development of low quality products. Few efforts have been made on improving the quality of feature models. This paper is an effort to present our ongoing work i.e. development of FODA (Feature Oriented Domain Analysis) maturity model which will help to evaluate the quality of a given feature model. In this paper, we provide the quality levels along with their descriptions. The proposed model consists of four levels starting from level 0 to level 3. Design of each level is based on the severity of errors, whereas severity of errors decreases from level 0 to level 3. We elaborate each level with the help of examples. We borrowed all examples from the material published by the research community of Software Product Lines (SPL) for the application of our framework.

Keywords quality;feature models;maturity model;errors;dead features;invalid feature model.



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