Introducing Product Line Engineering in a Bottom-up Approach

Nelufar Ulfat-Bunyadi, Rene Meis, Nazila Gol Mohammadi, Maritta Heisel

2016

Abstract

The optimal way for introducing a product line is to set up a completely new product line by developing a reuse infrastructure for the whole range of products right from the start. However, in practice, product line engineering is frequently introduced by a company after having developed a number of products separately (i.e. in single system engineering). The challenge then consists of defining the product line based on these existing products, i.e. to a certain extent these products have to be re-engineered. More precisely, two problems need to be solved: first, commonality and variability among the existing products needs to be identified to define a common set of core assets, and, second, the way in which future systems (i.e. products of the product line) will be developed based on this common set of assets needs to be defined. The method we suggest in this paper solves these two problems. Our method focuses on control systems, i.e. systems which monitor/control certain quantities in their environment.

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Ulfat-Bunyadi N., Meis R., Mohammadi N. and Heisel M. (2016). Introducing Product Line Engineering in a Bottom-up Approach . In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-194-6, pages 146-153. DOI: 10.5220/0006006001460153


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@conference{icsoft-pt16,
author={Nelufar Ulfat-Bunyadi and Rene Meis and Nazila Gol Mohammadi and Maritta Heisel},
title={Introducing Product Line Engineering in a Bottom-up Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={146-153},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006006001460153},
isbn={978-989-758-194-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT-PT, (ICSOFT 2016)
TI - Introducing Product Line Engineering in a Bottom-up Approach
SN - 978-989-758-194-6
AU - Ulfat-Bunyadi N.
AU - Meis R.
AU - Mohammadi N.
AU - Heisel M.
PY - 2016
SP - 146
EP - 153
DO - 10.5220/0006006001460153