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This paper introduces an approach to the specification of system families. The main ingredient of this approach is the definition of use cases hand in hand with a requirements object model. Instead of specifying individual systems, we specify a domain, i.e., a conceptual space of possible systems, in which individual systems can be defined by fixing a number of variation points. In that way we obtain a strong cohesion within the family and concise specifications of its members. We also describe a process suitable for this specification approach and indicate how the transition to the design phase can take place. Our approach was validated in one large project and several smaller ones.
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America, P., van Wijgerden, J. (2000). Requirements Modeling for Families of Complex Systems. In: van der Linden, F. (eds) Software Architectures for Product Families. IW-SAPF 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1951. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44542-5_22
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