FST Graduate Research Topic
Research Topic: Quality Metrics for Software Product Line Feature Models
Suggested By: Ebrahim Bagheri
Last Update: October 6th, 2010
Besides the quality evaluation of feature model configurations in light of the stakeholder requests, i.e. functional and quality attributes, feature models and their configurations need to possess certain structural properties to make them suitable for use. Comparable to code or objected-oriented design metrics, here we intend to investigate the possibility of developing a metric suite for feature models in order to identify the structural quality of them, such that instantiations and products of these feature models possess acceptable levels of quality when developed. Some of the important feature model properties that we will focus on to develop related quality metrics for are modularity, cohesion, coupling, maintainability, and reusability. The outcome of this work can be a metric suite and its related measurement software that will report on and visualize software product line quality metrics. |