Product line approaches in software engineering

The basic idea of this approach is to use business domain knowledge to separate the common parts of a family of products from the. Software, when made for a specific requirement is called software product. International workshop on product line approaches in software engineering in 2012, explore presented research, speakers and authors of please 2012. Software engineering is an engineering branch associated with development of software product using welldefined scientific principles, methods and procedures. Comparing approaches for quality evaluation of software. Becker exploring the use of reference architectures in the. Software product line spl engineering refers to the engineering and management techniques to create, evolve, and sustain a software product line. Product line engineering siemens digital industries software. Barrosjusto1, luisa rincon2,4, angela villota3,4, wesley k. It includes examples of real software product lines listed in the catalog of software product lines. Current approaches to product line engineering are designed to support a set of software firmware intensive systems addressing a particular market. Software product lines engineering is a technique that explores systematic reuse of software artifacts in large scale to implement applications that share a common domain and have some customized features. We consider the problem of supporting effective code reuse as part of software product line engineering.

A new generation of software product line success stories is being driven by a new generation of methods, tools and techniques. Software product line engineering to develop variantrich web services 3 objectives of the business area are determined with changes in its stockholders requirements in mind. Extending a product line involves adding new features to existing products, rather than developing completely new products. A company that makes telecommunications software may introduce a new app for tracking a cell phone. Unlike conventional software development paradigms that aim to develop single systems, sple considers the development of a family of. Product line engineering inside of plm supports the entire product lifecycle, enabling you to take advantage of robust product planning and system modeling capabilities across all domains. Software product line engineering with feature models. International workshop on product line approaches in.

Oct 01, 2018 a software product line is a collection of related products with shared software artifacts and engineering services that has been developed by a single organization intended to serve different missions and different customers. Software product lines challenge traditional analysis techniques, such as type checking, testing, and formal verication, in their quest of ensuring correctness and reliability of software. He was previously at carnegie mellons software engineering institute, where for 17 years he worked in software product line engineering and software architecture documentation and analysis. Product line engineering traces its roots as a field of study to software product line engineering, which gave us early and longstanding approaches to product line engineering that we characterize as first generation approaches. Incremental and distributed development of product lines. He works to spread the adoption of systems and software product line engineering. 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. Over the last few years, these trends have crystallized into an approach known as product line engineering ple for systems and software. Optimizing reuse product line engineering considering the different products an organization or organizational sector delivers as product family or product line taking advantage of commonality clear understanding about variability strategic planning of software reuse efficient production product 1 product 2 product 3 2 proactively plan the.

International workshop on product line approaches in software engineering in 20, explore presented research, speakers and authors of please 20. Featureoriented variability management in product line engineering lee, j. Introduction to the emerging practice of software product. A detailed investigation of the studies employing empirical research methods revealed that a majority of the studies were deficient on most 8 of 11, 72. Variability modelling techniques have been developed to assist engineers in dealing. Software product lines are never finished, rather they evolve during use. The framework uses patterns to solve the product line engineering problems at three different levels. Artifacts of pl approaches wellknown, experimentproven spl approaches were selected and analyzed. Domain engineering consists of collecting, organizing, and storing past experiences in building systems in the form of reusable assets and providing an adequate means for reusing them for building new systems. As an approach of using more advanced software engineering, we also examined the effectiveness of formal methods in requirements development in the domain engineering process.

Model based engineering and product line engineering. 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. After reading this book, you will understand all the relevant aspects, regarding business, architecture, process, and organizational issues, of applying software product line engineering. Many approaches for test case derivation in sple can be found in the literature 25. Biglevers industrystandard gears product line engineering tool and lifecycle framework allows you to develop, deliver and evolve your product line, smoothly and efficiently, through each stage of the lifecycle from requirements to design, implementation, testing, delivery, maintenance and evolution.

However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. A product line extension strategy is an approach to developing new products for your existing customers or for prospects who do not currently buy from you. Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on product line. Software product line engineering to develop variantrich. Product line engineering for ngo projects proceedings of. A group within the organization is assigned responsibility for the core assets of the product line as shown in. Software product lines spls, or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of. Systems and software product line engineering, or product line engineering ple for short, 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 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. Product line approaches in software engineering please. This approach is known as software product line development and it supports largegrained intraorganization software reuse. Software engineering at oxford software product lines. Product line engineering for very large, complex systems and systemofsystems.

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. Jul 17, 2018 this is the first of a twopart series of guests post about product line engineering ple from our friends at biglever software ple is the engineering of a product line portfolio using a shared set of engineering assets, a managed set of features and an automated means of production. Still, they substantiate that a scenariobased approach is one suitable approach towards integration testing. Integration testing in software product line engineering 323 spls without substantial extensions. Product engineering is the process of innovating, designing, developing, testing and deploying a software product. Engineering includes all the activities involved in planning, producing, delivering, deploying, sustaining, and even retiring products.

Product line evolution and software configuration management. In recent years, approaches with a similar background have rapidly emerged within software engineering, so called software product line spl approaches 2, 3. Adopting a software product line engineering approach in industrial development contexts. Comparing approaches for quality evaluation of software engineering experiments.

Software product line engineering has gained considerable momentum in recent years, both in industry and in academia. It starts with a domain analysis phase to identify commonalities and variability among spl members. The strategic and technical benefits delivered by ple are impacting the way companies build, deliver, evolve, and compete with their product lines. Feb 01, 2017 software engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with all aspects of software production. The genesis of software product line development methods manufacturers have long used analogous engineering techniques to create a product line of similar products using a common factory thatassembles and configures parts designed to be reused across the varying productsin the product line. The outcome of software engineering is an efficient and reliable software product. This bibliography lists sei and nonsei resources that have informed the sei product lines efforts. 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.

A key idea in sple is to capture the essential concepts of commonality and variability among a set of similar software products belonging to the same domain. On the notion of variability in software product lines. Product line software engineering plse is an emerging software engineering paradigm, which guides organizations toward the development of products from core assets rather than the development of. Software project management has wider scope than software engineering process as it involves. Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles in order to obtain economically software that is reliable and work efficiently on real machines. Nongovernmental organizations ngos are often plagued by very limited human and financial resources. This case study describes a dod weapon system development effort and compares the current way of developing software systems to the product line approach. The incremental development approach typically forms continue reading.

For improving product line architecture evolution, it is advisable to develop software product lines using a modular structure. Economic models and valuebased approaches for product line. A wellknown approach to address variability in a managed fashion is software product line engineering sple. This person is in charge of determining what stays and what goes. A software product line is a set of software products that share a common set of features. Software product lines are quite common in our daily lives, but before a product family can be successfully established, an extensive process. Software project management has wider scope than software. In software engineering, a software development methodology is a splitting of software development work into distinct phases or stages containing activities with the intent of better planning and management. Biglevers push for more comprehensive product line.

What are the different approaches used in the process 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. 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 managing their differences. Adopting a software product line engineering approach in.

The software development approaches below show how the various tasks related to software development can be organized. International workshop on product line approaches in software. These studies propose new and enhanced methods, techniques, and approaches to software product line development. Software product line engineering sple is an approach for software reuse. After that we describe the expressiveness needed for a knowledge representation system that is to support product line engineering. In recent years, approaches with a similar background have rapidly emerged within software engineering, so called software product line spl approaches 2. Product line engineering has been around since the early 1990s. Instantiating a software product line typically means taking a snapshot of the current software product line. Applied software product line engineering kang, kyo c. Software product lines in automotive systems engineering. Splc 2019 systems and software product line conference. 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. Aug 09, 2017 product line engineering ple is a way to engineer a portfolio of related products in an efficient manner, taking advantage of products similarities while managing their differences. Software product line engineering is an approach to costefficiently derive tailored products to markets and customers, utilizing common components and.

Software product lines challenge traditional analysis techniques, such as. Concepts and guidelines of feature modeling for product line software engineering. Software product line engineering is a paradigm to develop software product lines and as such supports reuse, productivity and quality of the systems. Software product line engineering sple refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar. Furtado, henrique vignando, victor franca and edson oliveirajr. Since our work is still workinprogress, this is not meant to be a comprehensive list.

The ideas behind software product lines come from different sources from the assembly line to the practices of cutandpast reuse to observations on which reuse projects succeeded and which failed. A common characteristic of these studies is their advantages. Product line approaches are wellknown in many manufacturing industries, such as consumer electronics, medical systems and automotive 1. In this article we tackle this problem by describing the design and automated derivation of the product variants of a software product line using an easy to. Understand the software product line engineering process and three approaches. Engineering on the other hand, is all about developing products, using welldefined, scientific principles and methods. Evolving a software products line for ecommerce systems.

Organizations that follow a platform approach usually create a separate. Product line engineering has become an important and widely used approach for the efficient development of whole portfolios of software products 23. In essence, ple is the idea that if a suite of similar products, with variations in features and functions, is to be developed a product line an overall architecture for that product line should be created to manage the product family as a whole in a way that maximizes the. Applying software product line principles in a product development organization will. Pdf a framework for software product line engineering. Software productline engineering provides the actionable information and proven tactics necessary to effect organizational change and make your future software projects more successful. Software product line is a set of softwareintensive systems sharing a common, managed set of features that specify the specific needs of a market segment and that are developed from a common set of core assets. 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. 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 shared set of software assets using a common means of production. Our approach is based on code forking a practice commonly used in industry where new products are created by. It takes a certain maturity in the developing organization to successfully field a product line.

Hence, we can conclude that the status of evaluation of vm approaches in software product line engineering is quite dissatisfactory. Software product line engineering sple is an engineering technique that aims to take advantage of commonalities and variabilities among a family of similar software products, e. The systems and software product line conference splc is a premier forum where researchers, practitioners, and educators can present and discuss the most recent ideas, trends, experiences, and challenges in the area of software and system product lines engineering. An empirical study on software product line experiments. This provides a common source of configuration data that can be leveraged across mechanical, electrical and software domains. Software engineering institute s product line practice framework approch in pohl et al. Integration testing in software product line engineering. Understand the definition of a software product line spl understand the software product line engineering process and three approaches understand spl scoping and feature modeling explain the role of feature modeling in the software product line engineering process describe commonality and variability in terms of features. Software product lines course the software product line spl approach to software development promises significant improvements in time to market, cost, and reliability, through the system identification and exploitation of commonalities and variations in software systems the approach promotes asset re use throughout the software life cycle, and facilitates product customisation spl. Unlike conventional software development paradigms that aim to develop single systems, sple considers the development of a family of software systems. Since our work is still work in progress, this is not meant to be a comprehensive list. Product line engineering ple is important because of remarkable efficiencies it has shown in the engineering process. The software product line spl is an emerging methodology for developing software products.

A product line is a set of products that together address a particular market segment or fulfill a particular mission. Concepts and guidelines of feature modeling for product. During domain design, the product line architecture is defined in terms of software. Requirements engineering in feature oriented software. Properly decomposing a product line into features, and correctly using features in all engineering phases, is core to the immediate and longterm success of such a system. 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. Product line engineering for automation software systems. A model driven software product line process for developing. A framework for software product line practice, version 5. Improving the development of ebusiness systems by introducing processbased software product. So, based on the problem and an understanding of the fundamental similarities of cmms and cmmbased improvement methods, the cmmi project was born. Software product line spl approaches motivate the development and implementation of a flexible and adaptable architecture to enable software reuse in organizations.

It concerns to produce customized software products as atomic or composite. Software product line engineering ple is the discipline of creating and managing software product lines. Typical approaches or paradigms encountered in dod software development include waterfall, incremental, and spiral as described below. In recent years, approaches with a similar background have. Customers who already know the brand will be more willing to buy from their new line. 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. 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 an overview sciencedirect topics. Featurebased determination of product line asset types. 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. In this paper, we show how product line engineering ple offers an opportunity to increase the sustainability of software projects that rely on the help of ngo volunteers.

Requirements engineering in feature oriented software product. For example, design patterns have been used for designing and implementing various software modules. 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. 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. Difference between software product line approach and. In most companies, the product line manager supervises a product line. The problem is what part of a software product line effort needs to be accomplished. Product line approaches in software engineering please, international workshop on. The carnegie mellon software engineering institute defines a software product line as a set of softwareintensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that a. 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.