Software Product Lines: Experience and Research Directions / Edition 1

by Patrick Donohoe

Overview

Software product lines are emerging as a critical new paradigm for software development. Product lines are enabling organizations to achieve impressive time-to-market gains and cost reductions. With the increasing number of product lines and product-line researchers and practitioners, the time is right for a comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the software product line approach. The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is proud to sponsor the first conference on this important subject.
This book comprises the proceedings of the First Software Product Line Conference (SPLC1), held August 28-31, 2000, in Denver, Colorado, USA. The twenty-seven papers of the conference technical program present research results and experience reports that cover all aspects of software product lines. Topics include business issues, enabling technologies, organizational issues, and life-cycle issues. Emphasis is placed on experiences in the development and fielding of product lines of complex systems, especially those that expose problems in the design, development, or evolution of software product lines. The book will be essential reading for researchers and practitioners alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792379409
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/31/2000
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #576
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	532
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

Session 1: Practice and Experience.- Domain-Oriented Engineering of Elevator Control Software.- Cummins’s Experience in Developing a Software Product Line Architecture for Real-time Embedded Diesel Engine Controls.- Applying Feature Models in Industrial Settings.- Session 2: Organization and Management.- Remember the Basics.- Strategic Product Development.- A Cooperative Model for Cross-Divisional Product Development for a Software Product Line.- Session 3: Methods.- Aspect-Oriented Analysis for Product Line Architecture.- The SPLIT Method.- CoPAM: A Component-Oriented Platform Architecting Method Family for Product Family Engineering.- Session 4: Process.- Government Product Lines.- Model-Based Requirements Engineering for Product Lines.- Value-Based Software Engineering (VBSE).- Session 5: Components.- Object-Oriented Frameworks and Product Lines.- Two Novel Concepts for Systematic Product Line Development.- Implementing Product-Line Features by Composing Aspects.- Component-Based Product Line Development: The KobrA Approach.- Session 6: Architecture.- Freeing Product Line Architectures from Execution Dependencies.- An Interface-Based Platform Approach.- Component-Based Product Line Development of Avionics Software.- A Computing Model of Product Lines for Distributed Processing Systems, its Product Sets, and its Applications.- Session 7: Tools and Techniques.- A Hierarchy of COTS Certification Criteria.- The SSEP Toolset for Product Line Development.- Development/Maintenance/Reuse: Software Evolution in Product Lines.- Developing Engineered Product Support Applications.- Session 8: Domain Engineering.- Domain Engineered Configuration Control.- Starting a Product Line Approach for an Envisioned Market.- Scoping Software Product Lines.

Editorial Reviews

Contains 27 papers drawn from the First Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC1) technical program, presenting research results and experience reports covering many aspects of software product lines. Topics include business issues, enabling technologies, organizational issues, and life-cycle issues. Contributions emphasize experiences in the development and fielding of product lines of complex systems, especially those that expose problems in the design, development, or evolution of software product lines. Contributors include researchers and practitioners from North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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