Pragmatic Methods for Commercial Software Product Line Engineering Practice

Summary form only given. The current generation of software product line (SPL) engineering success stories is being driven by a new generation of methods, tools and techniques. In this article, we explore the latest in the ongoing evolution of SPL best practices that make it easier to adopt an SPL engineering approach and that make it more efficient to achieve optimal benefits over the long term.The goal of the article is to enable attendees to gain a better and simpler understanding of SPL concepts and practice, based on the latest experiences and advances in the 3-tiered SPL methodology and the unified SPL lifecycle framework. These pragmatic SPL concepts represent current advances in SPL practice and are based on observations and firsthand experiences during deployments and operation of the latest generation of successful commercial SPL practices,including Lockheed Martin and HomeAway, as well as highly acclaimed Software Product Line Hall of Fame inductees Salion and LSI Logic/Engenio. The 3-Tiered SPL Methodology and Unified SPL Lifecycle Framework have supported full scale operational transitions to software product line practice, involving hundreds of software engineers, millions of lines of source code and requirements, and billions of dollars in commercial product lines.