In Software product line engineering (SPLE), feature diagrams (FDs) capture commonality and variability in terms of features and their relationships. The interactive process during which features are selected and excluded is called feature-based ...

A software product line is a strategic investment for an organization. Besides the initial decision to use a product line approach other strategic decisions are made, including which variations to accommodate. In this paper we present an adaptation of ...

The transition from a software product line to a software ecosystem, as reported by Bosch [5], takes place, when the product line company makes its platform available to developers outside the company. A similar transition takes place from a software ...

Many of the benefits expected from Software Product Lines (SPLs) are based on the assumption that the additional investment in setting up a product line pays off later when products are created. However, to fully exploit this assumption, organizations ...

In product line engineering (PLE) a major challenge is the complexity of artifacts that have to be handled. In real-world product lines, variability models can become large and complex comprising thousands of elements with hundreds of non-trivial ...

The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Commerce provides a conceptual approach named Core Components for defining business document models based on reusable building blocks. For the application in concrete business scenarios, ...

Product line development of communication system firmware with more than 2,000 features was performed in a large-scale project that involved more than 300 engineers (at a maximum) across four distributed sites. However, since intense demands to reduce ...

In-car infotainment systems must allow for product differentiation and the adaption to the needs of different markets. Product line approaches are applied because large numbers of different product variants need to be developed simultaneously. During ...

For economical reasons, the creation of feature oriented software should include previously created products and should not be done from scratch. To speed up this migration process, feature models have to be generated automatically from existing product ...