TY - GEN
T1 - A multi-company empirical evaluation of a framework that evaluates the convenience of adopting product line engineering
AU - Rincón, Luisa
AU - Mazo, Raúl
AU - Salinesi, Camille
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/10/19
Y1 - 2020/10/19
N2 - Companies considering adopting a product line engineering approach should ideally analyze the pros and cons to determine the sound reasons for this decision. In order to support this analysis, in previous work we proposed the APPLIES evaluation framework. This framework provides information to evaluate the convenience of adopting a product line engineering approach. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of APPLIES. This experience includes 18 potential practitioners that used the framework to evaluate the convenience of adopting product line engineering in 19 different companies. The collected evidence was used to evaluate the perceived usefulness, intention to use and ease of use of APPLIES. The results presented increase confidence that APPLIESis a useful tool, but also identify some possibilities for improvement. In addition, four categories for classifying potential adopters of product line engineering emerged during the analysis of the results: unprepared adopter, potential adopter, ready adopter, and unmotivated adopter. These categories could be useful to classify companies that are considering adopting product line engineering.
AB - Companies considering adopting a product line engineering approach should ideally analyze the pros and cons to determine the sound reasons for this decision. In order to support this analysis, in previous work we proposed the APPLIES evaluation framework. This framework provides information to evaluate the convenience of adopting a product line engineering approach. This paper presents an empirical evaluation of APPLIES. This experience includes 18 potential practitioners that used the framework to evaluate the convenience of adopting product line engineering in 19 different companies. The collected evidence was used to evaluate the perceived usefulness, intention to use and ease of use of APPLIES. The results presented increase confidence that APPLIESis a useful tool, but also identify some possibilities for improvement. In addition, four categories for classifying potential adopters of product line engineering emerged during the analysis of the results: unprepared adopter, potential adopter, ready adopter, and unmotivated adopter. These categories could be useful to classify companies that are considering adopting product line engineering.
KW - Empirical evaluation
KW - ease of use
KW - intention to use
KW - perceived usefulness
KW - product line engineering adoption
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097610387&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3382026.3425774
DO - 10.1145/3382026.3425774
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097610387
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 13
EP - 20
BT - Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Systems and Software Product Line, SPLC 2020
A2 - Capilla, Rafael
A2 - Collet, Philippe
A2 - Gazzillo, Paul
A2 - Kruger, Jacob
A2 - Lopez-Herrejon, Roberto Erick
A2 - Nadi, Sarah
A2 - Perrouin, Gilles
A2 - Reinhartz-Berger, Iris
A2 - Rubin, Julia
A2 - Schaefer, Ina
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 24th ACM Conference on Systems and Software Product Line, SPLC 2020
Y2 - 19 October 2020 through 23 October 2020
ER -