This framework is evolving based on the experience and information provided by the community. An approach of process control in software product line. 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. While the concept of software product lines has been used effectively in a number of commercial domains, the government acquisition environment presents unique challenges.
Rather as theodore levitt notes it is treating the delivery of fast food as a manufacturing process rather than a service process the value of this philosophy is that it overcomes many of the. Common problems paired with concrete solutions in the form of reusable software product line patterns. Personalized systems need to take these into account, as well as privacy laws and industry selfregulations that may be in effect. 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 software intensive systems that share a.
The product line approach provides an agile systems targetcontext for the agile systems engineering process reusing common productline hardware, firmware, and software whenever possible, evolving the product line with both internallyfunded development and opportunities presented by customer project work, and accommodating special. Artificial neural network approach for software product. Using a reactive software product line approach, salion made the transition to software product lines with 2 personmonths of effort, the equivalent of 1% of the effort required to build its baseline enterprise software product. The idea is to model fqas separately from application functionality following a software product line spl approach. Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get.
Ontological approach to derive product configurations from. Efficient and effective software sustainment of product. A software product line approach for ecommerce systems. Common problems paired with concrete solutions in the. Platform beats a product every time, says jost and by this he means that firms should approach software applications that they may only end up using for say a couple of years in their. These gains require different approaches to a number of the practices in the development organization including testing. For each software product line there is a predefined guide or plan that specifies the exact productbuilding approach.
As a result users struggle in finding the functionality needed to support their tasks. 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. Software product lines spls, or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of. A dynamic software product line approach for adaptation. 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. One increasing trend in software development is the need to develop multiple, similar software products instead of just. Again, our approach has been shaped by the cooperation projects that we have had with a number of companies which use software product lines. A software product line approach for end user development of smart spaces. Along with the development of software industry, softwares become much more professional and fieldrelated, which were followed by the rapidly changing requirements as well as the increasing complexity of software products. A framework for software product line practice version 4. Software product line spl engineering refers to the engineering and management techniques to create, evolve, and sustain a software product line.
Modular software product line approach for automation aiche. One increasing trend in software development is the need to develop multiple, similar software products instead of just a single individual product. A goaldriven software product line approach for evolving. In line with that, the approach provides the product owners and investors with proper business information. Customization support for existing applications is typically limited and often only. The strategy encompasses organizational management, technical management, and software engineering aspects of product production. The production line approach operations management. Softwareproductline engineering has gained considerable momentum in recent years, both in industry and in academia. The benefits of a software product line approach, including actual improvement data from industrial success stories. A framework for software product line practicesm a description of the essential activities and practice areas form a conceptual framework for software product line practice. 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. This case study describes a dod weapon system development effort and compares the current way of developing software systems to the product line approach.
By combining spl and aspectoriented mechanisms, we will define a generic process to model and automatically inject fqas into the application without breaking the base architecture. Whats the difference between a software product and a. Does the organization have articulated goals it is trying to achieve with a software product line approach. A framework for software product line practice, version 5. These benefits are realized through systematic reuse of common functionality among the products of a product line. A product line is a group of related products under a single brand sold by the same company. However, its benefits are severely counteracted by privacy concerns. The ultimate way to effective software evaluation cio. Software product line engineering is an approach to costefficiently derive tailored products to markets and customers, utilizing common components and. Web personalization has demonstrated to be advantageous for both online customers and vendors. Definition a set of softwareintensive system sharing a common, managed set of features that satisfy the specific needs of particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way. Product methodologies what they are and how to avoid. Applying product line concepts to design and development promotes reusability, as well as providing a set of guidelines for evolving or changing the architecture.
The fair analysis of the product tells companies whether the product is ready for the. It combines our stateoftheart ple technology and methods with the business strategy and organizational change needed to accelerate your ple adoption so that your organization can fully leverage ple to create. A dynamic software product line approach for adaptation planning in autonomic computing systems abstract. Software product line engineering with feature models. 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. This approach focuses on modeling the relationships between business goals and system qualities, and how these goals are met during. An automatic process for weaving functional quality. A goaldriven software product line approach for evolving multiagent systems in the internet of things.
Threelevel customization of software products using a product line approach abstract many office and enterprise business applications are overloaded with features. We help more than 5,000 companies and 300,000 users create strategic plans. Software product lines are quite common in our daily lives, but before a product family can be successfully established, an extensive process. Software product line engineering is an approach that uses planned reuse to take advantage of common and variable elements found in software products belonging to the same sector. Biglevers oneple solution biglevers oneple is the industrys only holistic, proven solution to enable rapid and effective adoption of ple by an organization of any size. The asset base includes those artifacts in software development that are most costly to develop from scratchnamely, the requirements, domain models, software architecture, performance models, test cases, and components. Difference between software product line approach and.
In a software product line approach, the reuse is planned, enabled, and enforcedthe opposite of opportunistic. 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. Successful product lines are often long lived, and some of the systems created from the productline approach will have entered the sustainment phase. In part ii of the book, we present the notion of software product lines and the process of adopting and evolving a productline approach to software development. Overall this is an excellent book that balances theory with a practical approach that is supported by case studies and real. Product flexibility is the anthem of the software marketplace, and product lines fulfill the promise of tailormade systems built specifically for the needs of. An approach of process control in software product line abstract. In response to this trend, people have introduced the. Effective use of a modular approach has demonstrated projects completed in one third the time as compared to conventional methodology, with one quarter of the resources. To develop new applications, software project managers select and apply the approach that they believe will help their team to effectively deliver the product ontime, onschedule, and tospecification. Modeling the reasoning component of selfadapting systems including its context is a challenging task. The strategy encompasses organizational management, technical.
A product line is a set of products that together address a particular market segment or fulfill a particular mission. This paper examines the advantages of utilizing a software product line type of approach with modular code structures to process automation architecture and project execution. The software product line approach is a strategy for producing softwareintensive products. Over the last few years, these trends have crystallized into an approach known as product line engineering ple for systems and software. 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. Threelevel customization of software products using a. A software product line is a set of software products that share a common set of features. Methods to develop a reusable base of core assets and to develop products that utilize that core. Product line engineering has become an important and widely used approach for the efficient development of whole portfolios of software products 23. Certainly the desire for production economies is not a new business goal, and neither is a product line solution. Opal, a reference implementation for this design approach. Comparison of software product line architecture design.
This paper examines howvia actual case studiesorganizations can effectively implement software development projects. An increasing number of organizations are shifting to a software product line pl approach to reduce timetomarket and development costs while at the same time increasing reliability and easing maintenance clements and northrop, 2001. Software product line article about software product. A software product line approach for end user development. Salions experience with a reactive software product line. Also, a product line approach to software development will lead to a more portable staff because the architecture is similar from project to project. Software product line an overview sciencedirect topics. Transforming into a productcentric it organization requires a systematic approach.