Software Product Lines in Automotive Systems Engineering

Mastering Erosion of Software Architecture in Automotive Software Product Lines

Most automobile manufacturers maintain many vehicle types to keep a successful position on the market. Through the further development all vehicle types gain a diverse amount of new functionality. Additional features have to be supported by the car’s software. For time efficient accomplishment, usually the existing electronic control unit (ECU) code is extended. In the majority of cases this ev...

Knowledge Engineering in Software Product Lines

A software product-line is a collection of products sharing a common set of features that address the specific needs of a given business area [1]. The PRAISE project [2], partly funded by the European Commission under ESPRIT contract 28651 and pursued by Thomson-CSF/LCR (France), Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany), and the European Software Institute (Spain), has investigated product-line realisation ...

Requirements engineering for systems and software product lines

Requirements Engineering for Software Product Lines

The cost of fixing a requirements defect later in the development stage is much higher than the cost of identifying and fixing it in the early stages of development. In order to do this the system requirements must be properly identified, analyzed and reviewed early in the development process. Requirements engineering is such a process that focuses on discovering, analyzing, documenting and man...

Software Product Lines in Value Based Software Engineering

Objective: Evaluate the value of a product line in terms of maintainability, extensibility and configurability with refer to the interested stakeholders: customers, maintainers, producers. Rationale: There are values that customers constantly require in a modern software application. Some of these values are supported by product lines. Nevertheless, in the industrial and scientific communities ...