Defining families-commonality analysis

A recent trend in both the software engineering research and industrial communities has been to seek ways to systematically engineer software domains. One approach is to develop families of software and to invest in facilities for rapidly producing family members. This half-day tutorial describes the commonality analysis process, a systematic approach to analyzing families. The result of the analysis forms the basis for designing reusable assets that can be used to rapidly produce family members. This in-depth tutorial will teach the participants the principles underlying the approach and will give them a chance to perform a practice commonality analysis guided by experienced users of the process.