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1 online resource |
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Variability Management. Software Product Line Engineering / Jan Bosch -- Variability Modeling / Kyo C. Kang, Hyesun Lee -- Variability Scope / Rafael Capilla -- Binding Time and Evolution / Rafael Capilla, Jan Bosch -- Variability Implementation / Jan Bosch, Rafael Capilla -- Variability Realization Techniques and Product Derivation / Rafael Capilla -- Visualizing Software Variability / Steffen Thiel, Ciarán Cawley, Goetz Botterweck -- Variability in the Software Product Line Life cycle / Kyo C. Kang, Hyesun Lee, Jaejoon Lee -- Review of Research and Commercial Tools. COVAMOF / Jan Bosch, Sybren Deelstra, Marco Sinnema -- PLUM: Product Line Unified Modeler Tool / Cristina López, Jason X. Mansell -- FaMa / David Benavides, Pablo Trinidad, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, Sergio Segura -- pure::variants / Danilo Beuche -- Industry Experiences. Philips Healthcare Compositional Diversity Case / Frank van der Linden -- Variability in Power Plant Control Software / Masami Okamoto, Makoto Fujii, Yoshihiro Matsumoto -- Second-Generation Product Line Engineering: A Case Study at General Motors / Rick Flores, Charles Krueger, Paul Clements -- Emerging and Research Topics in Software Variability. Dynamic Software Product Lines / Svein Hallsteinsen, Mike Hinchey, Sooyong Park, Klaus Schmid -- Variability in Autonomic Computing / Carlos Cetina, Vicente Pelechano -- Variability in Web Services / Matthias Galster, Paris Avgeriou -- Service-Oriented Product Lines / Jaejoon Lee, Gerald Kotonya -- Software Variability and Design Decisions / Rafael Capilla, Jan Bosch -- Variability and Aspect Orientation / Kwanwoo Lee |
| Summary |
The success of product line engineering techniques in the last 15 years has popularized the use of software variability as a key modeling approach for describing the commonality and variability of systems at all stages of the software lifecycle. Software product lines enable a family of products to share a common core platform, while allowing for product specific functionality being built on top of the platform. Many companies have exploited the concept of software product lines to increase the resources that focus on highly differentiating functionality and thus improve their competitiveness with higher quality and reusable products and decreasing the time-to-market condition. Many books on product line engineering either introduce specific product line techniques or include brief summaries of industrial cases. From these sources, it is difficult to gain a comprehensive understanding of the various dimensions and aspects of software variability. Here the editors address this gap by providing a comprehensive reference on the notion of variability modeling in the context of software product line engineering, presenting an overview of the techniques proposed for variability modeling and giving a detailed perspective on software variability management. Their book is organized in four main parts, which guide the reader through the various aspects and dimensions of software variability. Part 1 which is mostly written by the editors themselves introduces the major topics related to software variability modeling, thus providing a multi-faceted view of both technological and management issues. Next, part 2 of the book comprises four separate chapters dedicated to research and commercial tools. Part 3 then continues with the most practical viewpoint of the book presenting three different industry cases on how variability is managed in real industry projects. Finally, part 4 concludes the book and encompasses six different chapters on emerging research topics in software variability like e.g. service-oriented or dynamic software product lines, or variability and aspect orientation. Each chapter briefly summarizes "What you will learn in this chapter", so both expert and novice readers can easily locate the topics dealt with. Overall, the book captures the current state of the art and best practices, and indicates important open research challenges as well as possible pitfalls. Thus it serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners in software variability management, allowing them to develop the next set of solutions, techniques and methods in this complicated and yet fascinating field of software engineering |
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Computer science |
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Software engineering |
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Information Systems |
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Management of Computing and Information Systems |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Software product line engineering.
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Software
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software.
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COMPUTERS -- Programming -- Open Source.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- Tools.
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Software product line engineering
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Capilla, Rafael
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Bosch, Jan.
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Kang, Kyo C.
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| ISBN |
9783642365836 |
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3642365833 |
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3642441963 |
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9783642441967 |
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3642365825 |
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9783642365829 |
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