Software Product Lines

Between July 1999 and June 2005 a group of European companies, research institutes, and universities executed the EUREKA-ITEA projects ESAPS, CAFÉ, and FAMILIES on the topic of product line engineering. The projects originated from the need of the industry to improve software engineering performance by organizing product development in product lines. The results obtained within the projects have been implemented in several large industries (e.g., automotive, e-business, medical systems, and mobile phones). They involve a radical shift in software construction and production. The most important research results of the projects are collected in this book. Product line engineering was already applied within industry in the 1980s and presumably earlier. In the 1980s, good architects in many telecommunications c- panies based their architectures on the ideas of David Parnas, who published on the subject of program families . They were facilitated by the CHILL language widely used by the telecommunications companies. This language deploys the same modularity principles as the Modula programming language family. Modularity is a crucial ingredient for implementing systems with a component-based architecture. Being able to compose the products of components is an important mechanism in all product line architectures. In the 1990s, the product line ideas started to gain ground in other industries. Around 1995, the company experiences reached the academia and since then people in companies and academia have collaborated widely on this subject. The ESAPS, CAFÉ, and FAMILIES projects manifest an institutionalized form of this collaboration.

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Inhalt
Product Line Management.- A Scenario-Based Method for Software Product Line Architecting.- Strategic Scenario-Based Valuation of Product Line Roadmaps.- Experiences and Expectations Regarding the Introduction of Systematic Reuse in Small- and Medium-Sized Companies.- Product Line Requirements Engineering.- Capturing Product Line Information from Legacy User Documentation.- Scenario-Based Application Requirements Engineering.- Consolidated Product Line Variability Modeling.- Product Line Architecture.- Dealing with Architectural Variation in Product Populations.- A Software Product Line Reference Architecture for Security.- Architecture Reasoning for Supporting Product Line Evolution: An Example on Security.- A Method for Predicting Reliability and Availability at the Architecture Level.- Product Line Testing.- Product Line Use Cases: Scenario-Based Specification and Testing of Requirements.- System Testing of Product Lines: From Requirements to Test Cases.- The ScenTED Method for Testing Software Product Lines.- Specific Product Line Engineering Issues.- Incremental Systems Integration within Multidisciplinary Product Line Engineering Using Configuration Item Evolution Diagrams.- Software Product Line Engineering with the UML: Deriving Products.- Evaluation Framework for Model-Driven Product Line Engineering Tools.