Software Product Line Engineering

Foundations, Principles and Techniques

By: Klaus Pohl, Frank Van Der Linden, Gunter Bockle

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I. Software Product Line Engineering Are you interested in producing software products or software-intensive systems at lower costs, in shorter time, and with higher quality? If so, you are holding the right book in your hands. 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. Numerous reports development times document the significant achievements and experience gained by introducing software product lines in the software industry. Chapter 21 of this book summarises several cases. Concerning the terminology, there is an almost synonymous use of the terms Software product line "software product family" and "software product line". Whereas in Europe vs. software product the term software product family is used more often, in North America the family term software product line is used more frequently. This is, among other things, reflected in the names of the two former conference series (the so- ware product line conference series, started in 2000 in the USA, and the product family engineering (PFE) workshop series, started in 1996 in Europe) which were merged in 2004 to form the leading software product line conference (SPLC) series. In this book, we use the term software product line.

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Introduction	p. 1
Introduction to Software Product Line Engineering	p. 3
Principles of Product Line Engineering	p. 4
Engineering Customised Products	p. 7
Motivations for Product Line Engineering	p. 9
Software Product Line Engineering	p. 13
A Framework for Software Product Line Engineering	p. 19
Introduction	p. 20
Two Development Processes	p. 20
Overview of the Framework	p. 21
Domain Engineering	p. 23
Domain Artefacts	p. 28
Application Engineering	p. 30
Application Artefacts	p. 34
Role of the Framework in the Book	p. 36
Overview of the Example Domain: Home Automation	p. 39
Smart Home Fundamentals	p. 40
Building Blocks of a Home Automation System	p. 43
An Example	p. 46
Software Variability in Smart Home Applications	p. 50
Role of the Home Automation Domain in the Book	p. 52
Product Line Variability	p. 53
Principles of Variability	p. 57
Introduction	p. 58
Variability Subject and Variability Object	p. 59
Variability in Software Product Line Engineering	p. 61
Variability in Time vs. Variability in Space	p. 65
Internal and External Variability	p. 68
Orthogonal Variability Model	p. 72
Handling Complexity in Variability Models	p. 87
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 88
Summary	p. 88
Documenting Variability in Requirements Artefacts	p. 89
Introduction	p. 90
Documenting Requirements	p. 91
Variability in Textual Requirements	p. 96
Variability in Requirements Models	p. 99
Traceability Between Variability Model and Requirements Artefacts	p. 109
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 112
Summary	p. 113
Documenting Variability in Design Artefacts	p. 115
Introduction	p. 116
Architectural Artefacts	p. 117
The Reference Architecture	p. 123
Variability in the Development View	p. 124
Variability in the Process View	p. 131
Variability in the Code View	p. 132
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 134
Summary	p. 134
Documenting Variability in Realisation Artefacts	p. 135
Introduction	p. 136
Detailed Design Artefacts	p. 137
Component Interface Variability	p. 139
Internal Component Variability	p. 145
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 147
Summary	p. 147
Documenting Variability in Test Artefacts	p. 149
Introduction	p. 150
Test Artefacts	p. 151
Variability in Test Artefacts	p. 152
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 157
Summary	p. 157
Domain Engineering	p. 159
Product Management	p. 163
Introduction	p. 164
Terminology	p. 166
Traditional Product Management Activities	p. 167
Portfolio Management	p. 168
Extension of the Product Portfolio	p. 177
Management of Existing Products	p. 186
Scoping	p. 188
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 189
Summary	p. 191
Domain Requirements Engineering	p. 193
Introduction	p. 194
Traditional Requirements Engineering Activities	p. 197
Challenges of Domain Requirements Engineering	p. 198
Overview of Major Steps	p. 199
Requirements Sources	p. 201
Commonality Analysis	p. 201
Variability Analysis	p. 204
Defining Requirements Variability	p. 206
Example	p. 209
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 215
Summary	p. 216
Domain Design	p. 217
Introduction	p. 218
Traditional Design Activities	p. 220
Quality Requirements	p. 221
Commonality and Variability in Design	p. 225
Designing the Reference Architecture	p. 231
Architecture Validation	p. 236
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 238
Summary	p. 239
Domain Realisation	p. 241
Introduction	p. 242
Traditional Realisation Activities	p. 244
Realising Interfaces	p. 245
Realising Variable Components	p. 248
Binding Time of Variability	p. 250
Realising Configurability	p. 253
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 255
Summary	p. 255
Domain Testing	p. 257
Introduction	p. 258
Software Testing	p. 262
Domain Testing and Application Testing	p. 266
Testing Variability at Different Test Levels	p. 267
Criteria for Product Line Test Strategies	p. 270
Product Line Test Strategies	p. 271
Domain Test Activities	p. 281
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 283
Summary	p. 284
Selecting High-Level COTS Components	p. 285
Introduction	p. 286
The CoVAR Process	p. 288
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 300
Summary	p. 301
Application Engineering	p. 303
Application Requirements Engineering	p. 307
Introduction	p. 308
Application Requirements Engineering Activities	p. 312
Communication of the Product Line Variability	p. 315
Analysis of Requirements Deltas	p. 318
Documentation of the Application Requirements	p. 326
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 328
Summary	p. 329
Application Design	p. 331
Introduction	p. 332
Development of the Application Architecture	p. 334
Feedback of Application Artefacts to the Domain	p. 340
Effort and Cost of Variants	p. 341
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 342
Summary	p. 343
Application Realisation	p. 345
Introduction	p. 346
Configuration	p. 348
Realisation of Application-Specific Components	p. 350
Building the Application	p. 351
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 353
Summary	p. 354
Application Testing	p. 355
Introduction	p. 356
Domain Test Artefact Reuse	p. 359
Tests Related to Variability	p. 362
Testing Variability at Different Test Levels	p. 364
Application Test Coverage	p. 365
Application Test Activities	p. 367
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 369
Summary	p. 370
Organisation Aspects	p. 371
Organisation	p. 375
Introduction	p. 376
Properties of Organisation Structures	p. 376
Basic Hierarchical Organisation Structures	p. 378
Matrix Organisation Structures	p. 384
Detailed Structure	p. 389
Cross-Functional Teams	p. 389
Organisation Theory	p. 389
Differences from Single-System Engineering	p. 391
Summary	p. 392
Transition Process	p. 393
Introduction	p. 394
Motivation and Business Objectives	p. 394
Transition Strategies	p. 395
Benefits and Drawbacks of the Transition Strategies	p. 398
Cost Model	p. 400
Application of the Cost Model to the Transition Strategies	p. 402
Major Steps of a Transition Process	p. 406
Summary	p. 410
Experience and Future Research	p. 411
Experiences with Software Product Line Engineering	p. 413
ABB	p. 414
Boeing Company	p. 415
CelsiusTech Systems AB	p. 416
Cummins Inc	p. 417
Hewlett-Packard	p. 419
LG Industrial Systems Co., Ltd	p. 420
Lucent Technologies	p. 421
MARKET MAKER Software AG	p. 422
Philips	p. 424
Robert Bosch GmbH	p. 427
Salion Inc	p. 428
Siemens AG Medical Solutions HS IM	p. 430
Testo AG	p. 431
The National Reconnaissance Office	p. 432
The Naval Undersea Warfare Center	p. 433
Future Research	p. 435
Domain Specialisation	p. 436
Quality Assurance	p. 436
Model-Driven Development	p. 436
Evolution	p. 437
Multiple Product Lines	p. 437
Tool Support	p. 437
Process Improvement and Assessment	p. 438
Economics	p. 438
The Authors	p. 439
References	p. 445
Glossary	p. 457
Index	p. 461
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