A Common Home for Features and Requirements: Retrofitting the House of Quality with Feature Models

Abstract

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a method for quality assurance developed for application in production processes. One prominent tool for implementing QFD is the House of Quality (HoQ), whose basic design principles have been left unchanged for the last decades. Modern concepts for handling product variability, most notably feature models, represent intuitive means for a refurbished roof construction of the HoQ, and thus more expressiveness in the definition of functional requirements.