product-line

Product Line Engineering

Some of the work we do at my company is slowly edging towards a product family with different products in the same family and different flavours (or feature sets) in each product. I am looking for some product line engineering techniques that might help us. Web search leads to a lot of resources and a lot of different sources of informat...

Anyone recommends 'Pure Variants' for Software Product Lines generation?

Dear all, I am working on a software product line for online-tests automatic builds in coordination with my professor. He recommended for me "Pure Variants" as an open source tool which can be used as a plugin to Eclips. However, I am not really sure whether to go for it or search for other ones. So if you recommend this tool, then pleas...

Pros and Cons of Product Line Software Development

Has anybody here implemented a software product line approach, as defined by the SEI? How do you manage changes? How do you test? What problems have you had to deal with? For years we've basically been trying to follow a product line approach, but I am constantly fighting Program Managers who don't want to pay for testing changes not st...

Software Product Lines (SPL) for Domain Specific Languages (DSL)

Does it make sense to focus on Domain Specifics Languages (DSL) development following a Software Product Line approach? Does anyone know any other approach to create and maintain several related Domain Specifics Languages at the same time? Note that to support a custom language, requires support multiple tools, from parser, compilers, ...