It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations. Product life cycle management plm is the integration of all aspects of a product, taking it from conception through the product life cycle plc to the disposal of the product and components. Software product line engineering with feature models. Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the co. However, most development organizations must create a product line a portfolio of closely related products with variations in features and functionsrather than a single product. Modeling variability in software product lines with the variation point model. A software product line spl is a set of software intensive systems that share a common, managed set of.
Change management patterns in software product lines. The software engineering institutes product line practice initiative and fraunhofer institute of experimental software engineering have developed several useful frameworks see 3, 10. Patterns such as block or brick are more suited for cases, as pinwheel or tapered stacks are best for bags. Methods and case studies, addisonwesley, 2002, and software product lines. This report presents a vision for software product lines as an acquisition focus and suggests extensions to current department of defense policy and practices to increase the awareness of and receptivity to product line acquisition. A software product line is a set of softwareintensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way clements, northrop, 2002. Deriving variability patterns in software product lines by ontological considerations mohsen asadi1, dragan gasevic2, yair wand3, marek hatala1, 1 simon fraser university, canada, 2athabasca university, canada. The main difference from normal, oneofakind software development, is a logical separation between the development of core, reusable software assets the platform, and actual applications. But a software product line is a relatively new idea, and it should seem clear from our description that software product lines require a different technical tack. Minimizing the short comes of the first generation methodologies, which used manual application engineering.
The four aspects of a product line include shared process, shared components, shared infrastructure, and shared knowledge. The future directions of the software product line is heading towards development of more strategic methods. In this introductory chapter from the book software product lines the authors examine the definition of and the terminology associated with a software product line. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The remainder of this survey is structured as follows. This amortization not only results in cost reduction.
Practices and patterns, by paul clements and linda northrop, addison wesley 2002. Software product lines have emerged as a new software development paradigm of great importance. The idea is that a product line can help you reduce cost, while improving delivery time and quality, by sharing process, components, infrastructure and knowledge. A software product line is a set of software intensive systems sharing a common, managed set of features, that satisfy the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way. Software product lines practices and patterns boston, ma.
A software product line is a set of software intensive systems sharing a common, managed set of features that satisfy the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way. Tools and techniques for software development tend to focus on developing individual products. Analysis strategies for software product lines 3 we refer the reader to a recent survey benavides et al. Other books paul has coauthored include documenting software architectures. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. A software product line is a family of products that share characteristics.
As a reader of this book, you are also a member of this growing community. The catalog includes the essentials coverage pattern, each asset pattern, build pattern, product parts pattern, assembly line pattern, monitor pattern, product builder pattern, cold start pattern, in motion pattern, process pattern, and factory pattern. Ultimate product life cycle management guide smartsheet. The sei framework for software product line practice is a conceptual. The software product line practice was designed to manage software products, and their commonalities were designed to maxi. Software product line books adopting and evolving a product line approach, by jan bosch, addison wesley 2000 generative programming. We sponsor conferences like plop, europlop, up, chiliplop, mensore plop, koalaplop and sugarloafplop. Finally, we present a short discussion and our conclusions. These patterns provide a way to embody comprehe nsive and structured knowledge about different types of requirements. Software product management sometimes also referred to as digital product management or, in the right context just product management is the discipline of building, implementing and managing software or digital products, taking into account lifecycle considerations and an audience.
Though several techniques have been used by the software engineering community to address these challenges, our recommendations are novel in that they are tailored to product line engineering. Thirdparty components are increasingly being used in product line based software engineering, in which case the integration is controlled by the product line. The only approved spaces will be the ones suggested by a proficient pallet pattern software. In section 2, we give a short introduction to software product lines using a running example and we present an overview on important software analysis that have been applied to soft. It is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into source or machine code.
Featureoriented techniques that identify prominent features in a set of products in a particular domain are good candidates for managing change. Component documentationa key issue in software product lines. New methods in software product line practice december. Other books focus on software and system architecture and product line development. In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. Requirements development is a journey of exploration, not just a simple collection or transcription process. The practice areas are put into practices using the product line patterns 1. A software product line vision for defense acquisition june 1, 2002 technical note by grady campbell. Software product lines one of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools.
Patterns and practices in software development the work on patterns and pattern languages by the famous architect christopher alexander 1011 has been very influential in the software engineering. Potential benefits include better, faster, cheaper software. The book has a great patterns catalog, software product line practice patterns. In summary software product lines epitomize the concept of strategic, planned reuse. A software product line attempts to reduce the overall cost of developing a product, by amortizing development cost of features across several products in the product line. This article describes how this is done in practice, using the example of a product line of meteorological data systems. Software product lines however, before we introduce the example, well take a small detour into the basis of sple. Product line implementation using aspectoriented and model.
A framework for software product line practice version 4. Software product lines spls, or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production. Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the concept of product lines is relatively new to the software industry. The product line concept is about more than a new technology. Practices and patterns is the culmination of our efforts to grow and nurture a community of people interested in software product lines. Author is a senior member of the technical staff at the sei where he works on software architecture and product line engineering.
Spl community has spent huge amount of resources on developing various approaches to dealing with variability related challenges over the last decade. A software product line is a family of systems that share a common set of core technical assets, with preplanned extensions and variations to address the needs of specific customers or market segments. These goals will only be achieved if quality attributes, such as correctness and reliability, are continuous objectives from the earliest phases of development 39. Eisenecker, addison wesley 2000 software product lines. Software product lines spls 1, 20, software ecosystems 12,15, and personalizationcapable systemsespecially in the automotive, avionics, telecommunication or powerelectronics domainare. Product lines are, of course, nothing new in manufacturing. This work presents briefly the results of a mapping study on software testing tool and defines the requirements, design and implementation of a software product lines system test case tool, aiming.
This book provides a framework of specific practices, with detailed case studies, to guide the implementation of product lines in your organization. Paul clements vice president of customer success biglever. Chapter modeldriven impact analysis of software product lines. Software families, also named spls, are a set of software intensive systems sharing a common set of features which are managed to satisfy specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in. An introduction to software factories dzone integration. Addison wesley, 2002, isbn 0201703327 4 ieeesa standards board, ieee recommended. Although the term software architecture is used frequently in todays software industry, its meaning is not universally understood.
Product lines embody a strategic reuse of both intellectual effort and existing artefacts, such as software architectures and components. In the results chapter we present the practices and patterns that we found in our research. The more subtle consequence is that software product lines require much more than new technical practices. These and all books in the series address critical problems in software engineering for which practical solutions are available. Views and beyond, second edition addisonwesley, 2011 and evaluating software architectures. Software architecture in practice sei software engineering. As a result, we have begun developing a set of principles of software development that we hope will be of value to other software developers in evaluating and comparing various development. View paul clements profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Product support announcement see the latest about covid19 shipping availability and videoweb edition load errors. Stephen withalls software requirement patterns can help any analyst write better requirements.
A software product line is a set of softwareintensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific. From the director i software product line practice. Product line software product line software reuse change control change request. Plm merges the overarching vision that an organization has for managing the data, people, software, manufacturing, marketing, and overall plans for the. Deriving variability patterns in software product lines by. Practices and patterns 3rev ed by paul clements, linda northrop isbn. A systematic mapping study of software product lines testing. The hillside group is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving human communication about computers by encouraging people to codify common programming and design practice. Do choose a pattern style in relations to your product and packaging material. May 30, 2008 a software product line is a set of software intensive systems sharing a common, managed set of features that satisfy the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way 4. What is a software product line and why should you care.
Discusses practices and patterns of software product lines. The software product line approach to the development of software intensive systems has been used by organizations to improve quality, increase productivity and reduce cycle time. Software product lines have received considerable adoption in the software industry and prove to be a very successful approach to intraorganizational software reuse. Still others, from the seis cert program, describe technologies and practices needed to manage software and network security risk. For the evolution of software product lines, organizations supplement emerging requirements in their products to meet users needs and also. Practices and patterns clements, paul, northrop, linda on. Existing literature, however, often presents only a single approach towards adopting and evolving a software product line. Pdf a framework for software product line engineering. In providing a comprehensive set of practices and patterns, this book defines and explores the key activities for software product line development and explains. Practices and patterns august 20, 2001 book by paul c. Software product lines guide books acm digital library. Software product lines concepts, analysis and implementation. A software product line is a set of software systems developed by a company that share a common set of core requirements necessary for the developing a product with some known or allowable variations. Northropsoftware product lines practice and patterns.
A way to improve reusability and maintainability of a family of software products is through the use of software product line spl approach. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Variability management vm in software product line spl is a key activity that usually affects the degree to which a spl is successful. Sep 25, 2012 other books paul has coauthored include documenting software architectures. Modeling variability in software product lines with the.
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