Product Line Engineering

Author

Schmid, Korbinian ; Santana de Almeida, Eduardo

Volume

30

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

July-Aug. 2013

Firstpage

24

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Product line engineering (PLE) is one of the few industry-ready methods to manage reuse and variability in a defined way and thus bring software development maturity to a more advanced stage. The goal is to deliver specific product variants with fast cycle times at a manageable life-cycle cost with a defined quality level. Many IT and software organizations have started PLE but fail in industrializing the concepts and thus do not achieve sustainable benefits. Authors Klaus Schmid and Eduardo Santana de Almeida look at current technology for modeling and managing variation and thus facilitate PLE. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/R1gybFwAy10 is a video interview with David Weiss discussing the benefits of using software product line engineering to produce software families.

Keywords

software development management; IT organization; PLE; information technology; life-cycle cost; reuse management; software development maturity; software family; software organization; software product line engineering; variability management; Adaptation models; Product life cycle management; Software development; Software reusability; Unified modeling language; product line; software technology; tools; variability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2013.83

Filename

6547592