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

Van Der Linden, Frank J.; Schmid, Klaus; Rommes, Eelco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642090613 ISBN 13: 9783642090615

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

Combining academic research results with industrial real-world experiences, this book provides a broad perspective on product line engineering; managers as well as technical specialists will benefit from reading it. Coverage first presents a common framework for the description of the industrial case studies detailed in the book. Next, it presents the wealth of knowledge that eight companies have gathered during the introduction of the software product line engineering approach in their daily practice. This book will help readers understand all the relevant aspects of applying software product line engineering, regarding business, architecture, process, and organizational issues. Written by practitioners for practitioners, it provides a rich set of useful information for those considering using a product line approach in their organization or who want to improve their current practices.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642090613
• ISBN 13: 9783642090615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 353