Software product line engineering has proven to be the methodology for higher quality, lower developing a diversity of software products and softwareintensive systems cost, and shorter at lower costs, in shorter time, and with higher quality. Product line engineering is an evolving discipline that is using new tools and techniques to facilitate the manufacturing of the every day products we enjoy. C a systematic mapping study of searchbased software engineering for software product lines researcharticle a systematic mapping study of searchbased software engineering for software product lines. Variability modelling techniques have been developed to assist engineers in dealing with the complications of variability management.
A major strength of software product line engineering is the generation. The product engineering services space is witnessing a lot of action, as manufacturing companies around the globe grapple with new technologies, including the internet of things, cloud computing, enterprise mobility and byod bring your own device. It is the discipline and business process which governs a product from its inception to the market or customer. A systematic mapping study of searchbased software. Since our work is still workinprogress, this is not meant to be a comprehensive list.
A product consists of a product architecture, derived from the product line architecture, a set of selected and configured product line components and product specific code. Half of engineering is making sure youre building the right product and have the ability to actually build it. Brute force strategy pure application strategy sample application strategy commonality and reuse strategy domain testing aims at testing common parts and preparing. Methods for software reuse have been a driving force in significantly reducing the time and cost of software development, and industrys. The common software development focuses on the commonality of the product line, enabling variability, and the product development on the instantiation to specific variants. Learn more about software product development services here. Introduction he advances of software product line engineering sple during the last two decades to improve time to market, cost, quality and productivity are primarily attributed to identifying. Usually the testing is separated into different test levels. University of groningen software product line engineering for. University of groningen software product line engineering. Type checking annotationbased product lines christian kastner.
Filter by location to see software product engineer salaries in your area. Although the term software product line engineering is becoming more widely known, there is still uncertainty among developers about how it would apply in their own development context. The principal goal of modelling variability techniques is to configure a. Using product line engineering as a decision framework for. Software product line engineering has proven to be the methodology for higher quality, lower developing a diversity of software products and software intensive systems cost, and shorter at lower costs, in shorter time, and with higher quality. Software product line engineering sple has introduced several models and mechanisms for variability modeling and management. Requirements engineering for software product lines. Software product line engineering approaches were deployed pohl 2005a using. Home browse by title periodicals information and software technology vol. Dynamic decision models for staged software product line.
Software product line spl engineering refers to the engineering and management techniques to create, evolve, and sustain a software product line. Index terms product line, relational orientation, variability modeling, systems engineering, systems modeling language. Although the term software product line engineering is becoming more widely known, there is still uncertaintyamong developers about how it would apply in their own development context. Software product line engineering are you interested in producing software products or softwareintensive systems at lower costs, in shorter time, and with higher quality. Systems and software product line engineering, abbreviated as product line engineering or ple for short, is defined as the engineering of a portfolio of related products using a shared set of engineering assets and an efficient means of production. Software product line engineering is a paradigm to develop software product lines and as such supports reuse, productivity and quality of the systems. Transitioning to a software product family approach challenges. These new tools promise to help manufacturers deliver new products and variations on existing products. A unit test verifies a component or software unit against its specification. Aug 03, 2005 in addition, they explicitly point out the key differences of software product line engineering compared to traditional single software system development, as the need for two distinct development processes for domain and application engineering respectively, or the need to define and manage variability. Requirements engineering in feature oriented software. The system architecture of the software product line home automation example is layered, as depicted in fig.
In some cases, the architecture of the product line is used by all products without being adapted, whereas in. This is a ereader friendly version of the paper christian. A software product line is a portfolio of similar softwarebased systems and products produced from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production. Product line engineering for automation software systems. Software product line engineering may 11, 2008 edition. 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. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Salary estimates are based on 6,788 salaries submitted anonymously to glassdoor by software product engineer employees. Product line engineering ple 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 managing their differences. Product family software product line market maker driver assistance system reference architecture these keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Oct 01, 2012 software area editor david weiss discusses the benefits of using software product line engineering to produce software families. Using product line engineering as a decision framework for mbse. Figure 6 forces of moving from one industry type to another.
Analysis strategies for software product lines cmu school of. A product line systems engineering process for variability. Abstract software product line engineering has attracted. 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 carnegie mellon software engineering institute defines a software product line as a set of softwareintensive systems that share a. These new tools promise to help manufacturers deliver new products and variations on existing products more efficiently, with higher quality and faster time to market. One orthogonal an uml class variability model diagram a state machine etc.
By considering a product line portfolio as a single entity to. A product line engineering approach for efficiently. For example, in the basic control layer, two different types of databases may be used, in the device control and management layer, door locks may be manual or. Single sourcing of equal concepts in product family models variability as orthogonal or integrated additional information automated generation of product models based on decision sets asset reuse of all iso 26550 artifacts types possible topdown, bottomup, ip kept safe modelbased product line engineering is the key enabler. Ple aims at the development of a set of reusable assets and the derivation of particular products as instances of the variants represented in the product line model. Find out how product engineering companines like persistent systems help businesses build new digital products or enhance new ones. But software product lines based on interproduct commonality are a relatively new concept that is rapidly emerging as a viable and important software development paradigm. Asset reuse is highly desirable in software engineering.
Still there is a need to improve the testing practices in software product line engineering, taking a regression approach, rather than the brute force product by product approach. Contextsearchbased software engineering sbse is an emerging discipline that focuses on the application of searchbased optimization techniques to software engineering problems. In software product line engineering, product management activities, in particular, product definition and certain aspects of portfolio management, are subsumed under the term product line scoping. Feature models are used for in the software product lines approach to model different product variants. A product line is defined as a family of similar products or systems with variations in features. A familybased software development process weiss, david m. Unlike conventional software development paradigms that aim to develop single systems, sple considers the development of a family of software systems. The architecture is a general one, but the embedded variability makes it a software product line architecture. Software product line engineering ple is the discipline of creating and managing software product lines. The carnegie mellon software engineering institute defines a software product line as a set of software intensive 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. Ample 14, goaldriven product line engineering 16, and aournbased software product line 20 were selected based on the knowledge of authors on existing approaches on software product line requirements engineering. Regression testing in software product line engineering.
Productfamily engineering pfe, also known as productline engineering, is a synonym for domain engineering created by the software engineering institute, a term coined by james neighbors in his 1980 dissertation at university of california, irvine. Instead of implementing each program from scratch, productline engineering facilitates reuse by modeling a domain with features increments in functionality relevant for stakeholders and. Domain and application engineering processes for software product line products, according to pohl et al. A software product line is a portfolio of similar software based systems and products produced from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production. In this section, we present research that proposes integration of regression approaches into software product line testing. Inthis article we tackle this problem by describing the design and automatedderivation of the product variants of a software product line using an easy to. If so, you are holding the right book in your hands. The software product line spl is an emerging methodology for developing software products. By engineer, we mean all of the activities involved in planning, producing, delivering, deploying. Software product lines are quite common in our daily lives, but before a product family can be successfully established, an extensive process. The top five challenges of building software platforms in the. Foundations, principles and techniques klaus pohl, gunter bockle, frank j.
The domain engineering phase consists of activities that. This allows numeric values or enumerated values to be conveniently associated with features e. 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. A product line is a set of products that together address a particular market segment or fulfill a particular mission. Software product line an overview sciencedirect topics. Softwareproductline engineering has gained considerable momentum in recent years, both in industry and in. Apply to product manager, product line manager, software engineering manager and more. This approach can be seen in paradigms like software product line engineering where there is an emphasis on developing domain artifacts and then application artifacts 5. Pohl, software product line engineering and variability management.
Software product line engineering sple is a systematic approach for the design and development of software applications to create an array of similar products clements and northrop 2002. For software engineers, that means coming up with a software solution and being able to code it up properly. Experiences with software product line engineering. 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. Software product line engineering with feature models. Software product line engineering with feature models part 2. Software product engineering services, product engineering.
Systems and software product line engineering, abbreviated as product line engineering or ple for short, refers to the engineering of a portfolio of related products using a shared set of engineering assets and an efficient means of production. Pdf a framework for software product line engineering. Software product line engineering has proven to be the methodology for higher quality, lower developing a diversity of software products and if so, you are holding the right book in your hands. Software product lines come in many different forms. Software area editor david weiss discusses the benefits of using software product line engineering to produce software families. Software product line a software product line spl is a set of softwareintensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the speci. Product family engineering pfe, also known as product line engineering, is a synonym for domain engineering created by the software engineering institute, a term coined by james neighbors in his 1980 dissertation at university of california, irvine.
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