Software Product LinesEditors:

• Timo Käköla,
• Juan Carlos Duenas
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ISBN: 978-3-540-33252-7 (Print) 978-3-540-33253-4  (Online)

About this book
Software product line strategy has enabled many organizations to improve productivity, reduce time-to-market, and address both mass- and niche markets. A successful product line organization achieves strategic levels of architectural reuse.
This book covers research into the most important practices in a product line organization. Contributions provide experience-based knowledge about the domain and application engineering, the modeling and management of variability, and the design and use of tools to support the management of product line related knowledge. These are grouped into five parts corresponding to the main areas of software product line engineering: product line management, product line requirements engineering, product line architecture, product line testing, and specific product line engineering issues. The result is a valuable and enduring resource for researchers in both industry and academia who will also find many pointers for future research and implementation strategies. In addition, systems and software professionals, and technology managers aspiring to fully leverage the product line strategy will also benefit from many pertinent development

From the reviews:
"This book is a highly valuable resource for educators, researchers, and practitioners; it synthesizes the results of the work done by a group of European companies, research institutes, and universities on EUREKAITEA projects … on the topic of product-line engineering. The book will also help managers and decision makers planning to adopt product-line engineering practices at their companies gain insight into the effort involved." (Raghvinder Sangwan, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (4), April, 2008)