Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering

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Frank J. van der Linden Klaus Schmid

Software Product Lines in Action

The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering

Frank J. van der Linden, Klaus Schmid, Eelco Rommes

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
08 June 2007

Business innovation; Research & development management; Business mathematics & systems; Computing: general; Business applications; Maintenance & repairs; Software Engineering

Software product lines represent perhaps the most exciting paradigm shift in software development since the advent of high-level programming languages. Nowhere else in software engineering have we seen such breathtaking improvements in cost, quality, time to market, and developer productivity, often registering in the order-of-magnitude range. While the underlying concepts are straightforward enough – building a family of related products or systems by planned and careful reuse of a base of generalized software development assets – the devil can be in the details, as successful product line practice can involve organizational change, business process change, and technology change.

The authors ideally combine academic research results with industrial real-world experiences, thus presenting a broad view on product line engineering so that both managers and technical specialists will benefit from reading it. After presenting a common framework for the description of the industrial case studies, they capture the wealth of knowledge that eight companies have gathered during the introduction of the software product line engineering approach in their daily practice. After reading this book, you will understand all the relevant aspects, regarding business, architecture, process, and organizational issues, of applying software product line engineering. If you consider using a product line approach in your organization, or if you want to improve your current practices you will find a rich set of useful information at your fingertips – from practitioners to practitioners.

By: Frank J. van der Linden, Klaus Schmid, Eelco Rommes
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: 2007 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 699g
ISBN: 9783540714361
ISBN 10: 3540714367
Pages: 333
Publication Date: 08 June 2007
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frank van der Linden has worked at Philips Medical Systems in The Netherlands since 1999 and been involved with software product lines since then. He was program chair of a series of five workshops on product line engineering, is a member of the steering committee of the SPLC conferences, and co-authored ""Software Product Line Engineering"" published by Springer in 2005. Klaus Schmid is professor for software engineering at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. Previously, he was department head for requirements engineering and usability engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has been involved in numerous research and industrial projects in product line engineering. Eelco Rommes worked at Philips Research in the area of software architecture for medical systems from 2001 to 2006. During that time he was involved in several research projects and he has published on software product lines and related topics.

Reviews for Software Product Lines in Action: The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering

I fully expect that Software Product Lines in Action will become one of the foundational references of this quickly-evolving field. It's the most comprehensive treatment of product line practice in existence today. from the Foreword by Paul Clements, SEI - Carnegie Mellon University, USA For practicing software developers, or managers considering SPL engineering, this book is highly recommended. The case studies provide excellent examples, and the summary chapters will be invaluable in planning or starting a SPL. from the ACM Review by Andrew R. Huber, Hifn Inc, USA