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People with communication problems can use personal communicators as a low-cost help in their everyday life. The diversity of individual situations has guided us towards a solution based on the software product line paradigm. Multiple options can be easily incorporated to each product, allowing the adequate customization of the final application to the disability of each concrete person. Software product lines are a proven development paradigm in industrial environment but its application in small organizations is not easy. Our approach uses the UML package merge mechanism to manage the variability in the product line requirement, design and implementation models. The structure of the feature models is directly reflected in the relationships between packages in the architectural models, so that the traceability of configuration decisions is straightforward. A similar strategy is applied at the implementation level, using packages of partial classes. The combination of these techniques and the conventional IDE tools make the developments of product lines in small organizations easier as it removes the need for specialized tools and personnel. This article reports the successful experience on the development of a family of personalized communicators as a software product line representative of the mobile systems domain.
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Laguna, M.A., González-Baixauli, B. (2011). Development of a Family of Personalized Mobile Communicators. In: Cordeiro, J., Ranchordas, A., Shishkov, B. (eds) Software and Data Technologies. ICSOFT 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20116-5_8
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