Method Families Concept: Application to Decision-Making Methods

Elena Kornyshova (1) , Rebecca Deneckere (1) , Colette Rolland (1)

1 CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Paris 1

The role of variability in Software engineering grows increasingly as it allows developing solutions that can be easily adapted to a specific context and reusing existing knowledge. In order to deal with variability in the method engineering (ME) domain, we suggest applying the notion of method families. Method components are organized as a method family, which is configured in the given situation into a method line. In this paper, we motivate the concept of method families by comparing the existing approaches of ME. We detail then the concept of method families and illustrate it with a family of decision-making (DM) methods that we call MADISE.

Keywords: Method Line; Decision-Making Methods; Situational Method Engineerin; Method Family

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Software Engineering [cs.SE]

Elena Kornyshova, Rebecca Deneckere, Colette Rolland. Method Families Concept: Application to Decision-Making Methods. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling, Jun 2011, London, United Kingdom. pp.413-427, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_30⟩. ⟨hal-00662662⟩