Software product line scoping: A systematic literature review

Software product line (SPL) scoping aids companies to define the boundaries of their resources such as products, domains, and assets, target reuse tasks technical organizational aspects. As guides management in SPL development, it becomes one core activities this process. We can find literature several approaches on topic, proposing techniques methodologies be applicable different scenarios. However, no work comprehensively reviews describes advances state art last years. In context, we look into identifying, analyzing, extracting detailed characteristics from proposals found literature. These allowed us compare these approaches, reason about applicability, identify existing limitations research opportunities. Thus, conducted a systematic review alongside snowballing, following well-defined protocol retrieve, classify extract information analyzed total 58 studies, identifying 41 field, highlighting similarities differences, establishing generic Furthermore, discuss opportunities field.