Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I Software product line engineering challenges
- Part II Variability analysis and modelling
- Part III Variability implementation and traceability
- Part IV Product-driven vs. solution-driven software product line engineering
- Part V Future trends
- 12 Dynamic variability in adaptive systems
- 13 Imperfect information in software product line engineering
- 14 Empirical research in software product line engineering
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
13 - Imperfect information in software product line engineering
from Part V - Future trends
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I Software product line engineering challenges
- Part II Variability analysis and modelling
- Part III Variability implementation and traceability
- Part IV Product-driven vs. solution-driven software product line engineering
- Part V Future trends
- 12 Dynamic variability in adaptive systems
- 13 Imperfect information in software product line engineering
- 14 Empirical research in software product line engineering
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In the previous chapters of this book, it has been established that software product lines (SPL) have become one of the most popular means to providing a flexible product portfolio while achieving a short time-to-market. By reusing overlapping functionality, production time and cost of development can be significantly reduced for families of products (Pohl et al., 2005). But this increased flexibility comes at a price as software developers are faced with a considerable increase of complexity when designing the software product line.
Where the development of traditional software systems already requires substantial amounts of information, the development of SPLs involves even larger quantities of information. As an SPL supports a range of products, detailed information on all these products is required for SPL engineering. In addition, information is required on how the variability among these products is to be supported, what the design of the SPL infrastructure will look like and how the SPL will be aligned with market.
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- Aspect-Oriented, Model-Driven Software Product LinesThe AMPLE Way, pp. 378 - 410Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011