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Release Planning with Feature Trees: Industrial Case

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2012)

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[Context and motivation] Requirements catalogues for software release planning are often not complete and homogeneous. Current release planning approaches, however, assume such commitment to detail – at least implicitly. [Question/problem] We evaluate how to relax these expectations, while at the same time reducing release planning effort and increasing decision-making flexibility. [Principal ideas/results] Feature trees capture AND, OR, and REQUIRES relationships between requirements. Such requirements structuring can be used to hide incompleteness and to support abstraction. [Contribution] The paper describes how to utilize feature trees for planning the releases of an evolving software solution and evaluates the effects of the approach on effort, decision-making, and trust with an industrial case.

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  1. School of Computing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Campus Gräsvik, 371 79, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Samuel Fricker

  2. Zurich University of the Arts, Ausstellungsstrasse 60, 8005, Zurich, Switzerland

    Susanne Schumacher

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Box 118, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden

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  2. Computer Engineering Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Daniela Damian

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Fricker, S., Schumacher, S. (2012). Release Planning with Feature Trees: Industrial Case. In: Regnell, B., Damian, D. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28714-5_26

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