Software Product Line

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Software Product Line

• Sudhir Patel

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Outline

• Introduction
• Benefit
• Issues
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• What is Software Product Line?
• Set of software-intensive systems
• Common domain
• Common assets

Core Assets
Production
Software Products
Product Decisions
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Introduction- contd.

• Reuse
• Not accidental
• Strategic
• Planned
• Economies of scope

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Benefits

• Time-to-market
• Quality
• Satisfied Customer
• Fewer Defects
• Productivity
• Scalability

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Issues

• Up-front investment
• Change in organizational unit

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Summary

• If Software Product Line adopted properly
• Productivity and Benefits increases
• Cost and defects decreases

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References

• Software Engineering Institute
• www.sei.cmu.edu/productlines/
• Software Product Lines Practices and Patterns
• By Paul Clements, Linda Northrop
• http//delivery.acm.org/10.1145/390000/381482/p91-
  bosch.pdf
• www.softwareproduclines.com
• http//www.sei.cmu.edu/plp/SoftwareProductLinesSEI
  Tenets.pdf