SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES: AN ANALYSIS OF TOOLS THAT SUPPORT APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING’S PHASE

Many companies are interested in improving the quality of software development, increase productivity, reduce costs, decrease time to market and having more flexibility. These interests can be found in approaches that use the principle of software reuse as in Software Product Line (SPL). In the context of the SPL, the activities of requirements engineering (RE) are more complex because they involve more stakeholders and products in addition to need more attention to the similarities and variability of SPL. Because of the great difficulty and importance of capturing the correct requirements for the development of a software product, this paper aims to analyze the main tools that assist the process of Application Requirements Engineering of SPL. In order to perform this analysis, we selected features that were identified in the tools found during the systematic review of literature, and from the construction of a picture was perceived to analyze the tools according to the features selected