A Use Case Textual Description for Context Aware SPL Based on a Controlled Experiment

A Software Product Line (SPL) that aims to develop context aware applications leaves challenges inherent to the SPL-based development approach and the type of application being developed (contextaware). These challenges leave open issues, like those related to how the context influences should be described. In the literature, there are studies that support the development of traditional SPL by using templates for use case description in a text style with variability information. However, a template that considers context awareness in SPL was not found, and thus, this paper proposes a use case template for a Context Aware SPL based on the results of a controlled experiment conducted with four of the use case templates for traditional SPL found in the literature. This paper also presents a preliminary evaluation of the proposed template.