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A Domain Engineering Approach to Increase Productivity in the Development of a Service for Changes Notification of the Configuration Management Database
Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
- 1 Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
- 2 Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
- 3 Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
- 4 Departamento de Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications·Volume 06 (2013)·Pages 207–220·Published 25 April 2013·DOI10.4236/jsea.2013.64026
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Abstract
This paper presents a domain engineering approach to build a software product line that supports the change notification service in a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) according to the Information Technology Infrastructure Li brary (ITIL) best practices. For the development of this product line, the proposed approach makes use of a construction of products methodology by analogy: this is a new notation which reports the variability of the products, obtaining met rics as important as the number of products and uses a language that enables, by means of the flexibilization of a pro duct and the development of some generators, to build the rest of the product line. In addition the paper offers a stan dard for the analysis and design of the CMDB as well. Finally, the paper presents an economic model for the product line, where the profitability and productivity of the proposed solution are analyzed.
KeywordsITILCMDBDatabasesChange ManagementConfiguration ManagementDomain EngineeringSoftware Product Lines
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