A Flexible Approach for Generating Product-Specific Documents in Product Lines

Rabiser R, Heider W, Elsner C, Lehofer M, Grünbacher P, Schwanninger C (2010)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2010

Journal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer Verlag

Publisher: Springer-verlag

Edited Volumes: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

City/Town: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany

Pages Range: 47-61

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 14th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2010)

Event location: Jeju Island, South Korea

URI: http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Publications/2010/elsner_10_splc2.pdf

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15579-6_4

Abstract

In software product line engineering various stakeholders like sales and marketing people, product managers, and technical writers are involved in creating and adapting documents such as offers, contracts, commercial conditions, technical documents, or user manuals. In practice stakeholders often need to adapt these documents manually during product derivation. This adaptation is, however, tedious and error-prone and can easily lead to inconsistencies. Despite some automation there is usually a lack of general concepts and there are "islands of automation" that are hardly integrated. Also, research on product lines has so far often neglected the handling of documents. To address these issues, we developed a flexible approach for automatically generating product-specific documents based on variability models. We applied the approach to two industrial product lines of different maturity using the decision-oriented product line engineering tool suite DOPLER. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Authors with CRIS profile

Christoph Elsner Lehrstuhl für Informatik 4 (Verteilte Systeme und Betriebssysteme)

Involved external institutions

Johannes Kepler Universität (JKU) Linz AT Austria (AT) Siemens AG Österreich AT Austria (AT) Siemens AG DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Rabiser, R., Heider, W., Elsner, C., Lehofer, M., Grünbacher, P., & Schwanninger, C. (2010). A Flexible Approach for Generating Product-Specific Documents in Product Lines. In Proceedings of the 14th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2010) (pp. 47-61). Jeju Island, South Korea: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-verlag.

MLA:

Rabiser, Rick, et al. "A Flexible Approach for Generating Product-Specific Documents in Product Lines." Proceedings of the 14th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2010), Jeju Island, South Korea Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-verlag, 2010. 47-61.

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