Product Family Engineering - List of Concepts

Domain analysis

Document contains an analysis of the domain through which common and variable requirements can be split up.

Reusable common requirements

Document contains requirements that are common to all products in the product line.

Variable requirements

Document contains derivation of customised requirements for different products.

Reference Architecture

Determines the static and dynamic decomposition that is valid for all products of the product line. Also the collection of common rules guiding the design, realisation of the parts, and how they are combined to form products.

Variability model

Defines the variability of the product line.

Design & implementation assets of reusable components

The major components for the design and implementation aspects, which are relevant for the whole product family.

Test results

The output of the tests performed in domain testing.

Reusable test artifacts

Test artifacts include the domain test plan, the domain test cases, and the domain test case scenarios.

Requirements specifications

The requirements for a particular product.

Product architecture

Comparable to reference architecture, but this contains the product specific architecture.

Running application

A working application that can be tested later on.

Detailed design artifacts

These include the different kinds of models that capture the static and dynamic structure of each component.

Test report

Document with all test results of the product.

Problem report

Document, which lists all problems encountered while testing the product.

Final product

The delivery of the completed product.

Family model

The overlapping concept of all family members with all sub products.

Family member

The concept of the individual product.

Context document

Document containing important information for determining the scope; containing guidelines, constraints and production strategy.

Guidelines

Market/business/product guidelines

Constraints

Market/business/product constraints

Product strategy

Product strategy with regard to markets

Product portfolio description

Portfolio containing all available products, with important properties.

List of current & future products

A list of all current products and the products that will be produced in the future.

Product roadmap

Describes the features of all products of the product line and categorises the feature into common features that are part of each product and variable features that are only part of some products.