Improving Knowledge Sharing in Embedded Software Production Line

A smoothly running software production line (SPL) requires consistent family-viewpoint awareness among the stakeholders through the development cycle, which in software-intensive products´ engineering extends from requirements elicitation and marketing to detailed design and integration testing. To improve knowledge sharing among the stakeholders, we developed a documentation model based on feature modelling, and implemented it in a concurrent and multi-site development environment In this paper we share our experience from the field, gathered during the development and qualitative and quantitative performance analysis of this production-line kind of software development environment.