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An Empirical Evaluation of the PLUSS Toolkit Magnus Eriksson, Henrik Morast, Jürgen Börstler and Kjell Borg UMINF-06.31 ISSN-0348-0542 UMEÅ UNIVERSITY Department of Computing Science SE-901 87 UMEÅ SWEDEN An Empirical Evaluation of the PLUSS Toolkit 1 2 3 1 Magnus Eriksson , Henrik Morast , Jürgen Börstler and Kjell Borg 1 BAE Systems Hägglunds AB 2 Syntell AB 3 Umeå University SE-891 82 Örnsköldsvik PO Box 100 22 Dept. of Computing Science Sweden SE-100 55 Stockholm SE-901 87 Umeå {Magnus.Eriksson, Sweden Sweden Kjell.Borg}@baesystems.se morast@syntell.se jubo@cs.umu.se ABSTRACT The PLUSS approach (Product Line Use case modeling for Systems and Software engineering) is a domain modeling method tailored towards the development of long lived software intensive systems, for example defense systems. The goal of the PLUSS approach is to provide means to maintain a common and complete use case model for a whole family of systems, and to provide a good overview of all variants within such a family. In this paper, we describe how the commercial requirements management tool Telelogic DOORS and the UML modeling tool IBM-Rational Rose can be extended and used for managing system family models in accordance with the PLUSS approach. We refer to these extensions as the PLUSS toolkit. An empirical stud