Hospital Management by Product Lines

Product Lines of Product Lines

A Software Product Line (SPL) is a set of related programs. A SPL of a SPL (SPL), or a product line of a product line, is a fundamental scaling of product line concepts. A member of a SPL is not a program, but a SPL. The idea recurses: a SPL is a SPL of a SPL, and so on. The depth of recursion is the rank of the product line. We present an algebra to understand and build feature-based product l...

Variability Management in Software Product Lines

People Management in Institutionalizing Product Lines

1 Currently, the key approach to large-scale software reuse is product line development, an approach built upon the systematic development of building blocks for reuse. While most work on product lines focusses on technical issues, in the end they are built by by people. Winning them for product line development is a key issue in successfully introducing and institutionalizing product line deve...

Variability Management for Product Lines with XVCL

Managing variability is the essence of software product line (PL) practice. With many variant features and complex dependencies among them, it also becomes a major challenge for effective reuse. Without an adequate technique for managing variability, we face problems such as explosion of similar component versions, or difficulty to select and then adapt component configurations during reuse-bas...

Systematic management of software product lines

Software product lines can effectively facilitate large-scale reuse and can thus bring about order of magnitude improvements in terms of time to market (TTM), costs, and quality. This comes at the price of a more complex development environment in which many interdependencies are created through shared generic assets. Owing to this complexity, the specific strategy chosen for product line devel...