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 challenge traditional analysis techniques, such as. Were closed on australian national, queensland public holidays and new zealand national public holidays. A framework for software product line practice is a document that aids the software community in software product line endeavors. Using requirements management tools in software product line engineering. While we acknowledge that there are different paths to successful process discipline, in this technical note, we concentrate on approaches based on the capability maturity.
A software product line is a set of software products that share a common set of features. Product flexibility is the anthem of the software marketplace, and product lines fulfill the promise of tailormade systems built specifically for the needs of. Software product line engineering has gained considerable momentum in recent years, both in industry and in academia. When rapid growth and an aggressive business plan pushed the onesizefitsall approach beyond its limits, homeaway decisively applied the 3tiered software product line spl methodology and the gears unified spl framework to transition to a software product line practice. The emerging practice of software product line development. 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. Software product lines in action the best industrial practice in. The report presents the management of the product line, especially the. 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. Using requirements management tools in software product. Applying software product line principles in a product development organization will help the organization achieve increasingly challenging business goals. In project management under the prince2 methodology, a product breakdown structure pbs is a tool for analysing, documenting and communicating the outcomes of a project, and forms part of the product based planning technique the pbs provides an exhaustive, hierarchical tree structure of deliverables that make up the project, arranged in wholepart relationship haughey, 2015.
The success of the software product line strategy is due, at least partially, to its comprehensive nature. The emerging practice of software product line development by charles w. Testing a software product line clemson university. Software product line practice seeks to achieve a number of goals including reduced costs, improved time to market, and improved quality of the products belonging to the product line. Product line engineering for systems and software is a way to engineer a portfolio of related products in an efficient manner, taking full advantage of the products similarities while respecting and. An effective quality strategy for a software product line requires both static and dynamic analysis techniques. Introduction to the emerging practice of software product. Software product line practice, which was just coming into viewat the time, seemed to be the answer. Product flexibility is the anthem of the software marketplace, and product lines fulfill the promise of tailormade systems built specifically for the needs of particular customers or customer groups. Software product line engineering software product line engineering sple 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. Practicepro simplifies every step of the practice management and medical billing process, right from the initial scheduling of an appointment to the provision of quality service and remittance tasks following every patients visit. Product lines are, of course, nothing new in manufacturing. Software product lines product line engineering ple traces its roots as a field of study to software product line engineering. A software product line oriented approach to developing systems has an impact on the development process as a whole.
Software product lines spls, or software product line development, refers to software. Medical practice management software practicepro mtbc. Each version represents an incremental attempt to capture the latest information about successful software product line practices. The variation points in the product line include the operating system on which the games run, a choice of an analog, digital, or no scoreboard, and whether the product has a practice mode. The software product line practice was designed to manage software products, and their commonalities were designed to maximize the benefits to the organization. Software product line development approaches provide a shift in perspective, so that development organizations can engineer their entireportfolio as though it were a single system the production line rather than a multitude of products. Software product line article about software product. Software product line engineering sple is a form of the new model in the line of software engineering where techniques of industrial production are, and gradually changes carry out for software. Prevalent in the software product line literature at the time was the assumptionthat it requires an upfront investment of 2 to 3 products worth of developmenteffort in order to see return on those investments 1,2. Introduction to software product lines sei digital library.
Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the concept of product lines is relatively new to the software industry. Mtbc provides more than just medical billing services. 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. These and all books in the series address critical problems in software engineering for which practical solutions are available. Software product lines, or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar software systems from a. Software product lines represent perhaps the most exciting paradigm shift in software development since the advent of highlevel programming languages. These commonalities among software systems are embodied in artifacts called core assets.
As a consequence, gms development processes must be able to produce tens of thousands of product variants each calendar year to meet worldwide market demands. Software product lines similar to traditional product lines commonize parts for less complex manufacturing goals. This article describes how this is done in practice, using the example of a product line of meteorological data systems. Software product lines spls are a relatively new concept in the software industry, but they have already demonstrated a potential for tremendous benefits such. Core assets are reusable and can be any of the following. The strengths of existing product line frameworks and models are summarized. Still others, from the seis cert program, describe technologies and practices needed to manage software and network security risk. The improvements are so large that they impact the fundamentals of how companies do business. By using an incremental transition strategy, engenio avoided the typical upfront adoption barrier the equivalent development effort of 2 to 3 standalone products which in their case was projected to be 900 to 50 developermonths. The software product line strategy defines specific tasks for the organizational management, technical management, and software engineering aspects of. Product lines have been used by the manufacturing industry for a long time to reduce costs and increase productivity by exploiting commonalties between products.
Software product line reuse in practice ieee conference. Homeaways transition to software product line practice. For example, configuration management is a practice area that applies to any software development effort, but it has special implications for product line. A product line engineering practices model sciencedirect. Other books focus on software and system architecture and product line development. A software product line is a family of products designed to take advantage of their common aspects and predicted variabilities the software product line practice was designed to manage software products, and their commonalities were designed to. A framework for software product line practice sebok. A framework for software product line practice, version 5. This presentation describes gms system engineering approach to developing an electronics, controls, and software product line. A framework for software product line practice is a document that aids the soft ware community in software product line endeavors. A framework for software product line practice version 4.
A practice area is the body of work or set of activities. In the final capstone project, you will practice and apply management techniques to realistic scenarios that you will face as a software product manager. Software product line engineering with feature models. Many organizations report dramatic benefits from the adoption of software product line practice. 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.
The software product line strategy is a business strategy that uses. Software product lines have emerged as a new software development paradigm of great importance. Krueger, phd a new class of software development methods, tools, and techniques is emerging that greatly simplifies the engineering of product line portfolios. Identify the foundational concepts underlying software product lines and the essential activities to consider before developing a product line identify practice areas that an organization developing software product lines must master. Introduction to the seis software product line framework. In this software product management specialization, you will master agile software management practices to lead a team of developers and interact with clients. Introduction to software product lines springerlink. These goals will only be achieved if quality attributes, such as correctness and reliability, are. A software product line spl implies a formal procedure for designing the modules based on predicting how they can be reused to solve a variety of problems. However, product line practice in the software industry is a relatively new concept. 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. This tutorial introduces the essential activities and underlying practice areas of software product line development. Organizations that have established software engineering process discipline are better poised to succeed with product lines.
Because of this, climate models are akin to software product lines spls which can produce a range of individual products from the same codebase. Software product lines software product lines in practice medium. Software process improvement and product line practice. A product line is a set of products that together address a particular market segment or fulfill a particular mission. Boeing builds one, and so do ford, dell, and even mcdonalds. The study of software product line addresses the issues of engineering software systems families, or collections of similar software systems. We help doctors automate their manually handled tasks.
Although the basic idea of product lines is simple, systematic implementation of the approach is a challenging task. A software product line is a set of softwareintensive 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. Northrop, a framework for software product line practice. Software organizations of all types and sizes are discovering that when skillfully implemented. A systematic mapping study of software product lines testing. Engenio made the transition to software product line practice in order to keep pace with growing business demand for its products. Using this example we will show how a product line is designed, and how product variants can be derived automatically. The software product line conference splc provides a forum for practitioners, researchers and educators to present and discuss the most recent ideas, innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in software product lines and software product family engineering. An important objective of this product line practices model is that it should be. This tsp symposium 2014 presentation introduces software product line development, essential activities and underlying practices, and costs and benefits of. Software product lines in practice this publication aims to publish insights into software product lines based on experiences in rolling out software product lines in a large organization. Making an incremental transition to software product line. Software product lines, and the efforts to characterize their successes, gave us early and longstanding approaches to product line engineering that we characterize as first generation approaches. Techniques for static analysis are often dismissed as more expensive, but in a software product line, the cost of static analysis can be amortized over multiple products.
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