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On the problems with evolving Egemin's software product line

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Bartosz Michalik,

Danny Weyns,

Wim Van BetsbruggeAuthors Info & Claims

PLEASE '11: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Product Line Approaches in Software Engineering

Pages 15 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/1985484.1985489

Published: 22 May 2011 Publication History

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Egemin, an industrial manufacturer of logistic systems is adopting a Software Product Line (SPL) approach to manage the development of their product portfolio. However, due to the intrinsic complexity of the logistic systems and lack of explicitly documented architectural knowledge evolution of the products is error-prone. Faulty updates increase maintenance costs and harm the company's reputation. Therefore, Egemin searches for a systematic solution that can improve their SPL evolution strategy.

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On the problems with evolving Egemin's software product line
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
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        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues

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PLEASE '11: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Product Line Approaches in Software Engineering

May 2011

72 pages

ISBN:9781450305846

DOI:10.1145/1985484

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Julia Rubin
IBM Research at Haifa, Israel
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Goetz Botterweck Lero
University of Limerick, Ireland
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Andreas Pleuss Lero
University of Limerick, Ireland
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David M. Weiss
Iowa State University, USA

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Santos Ade Oliveira Rde Almeida ELv JZhang HBabar M(2015)Strategies for consistency checking on software product linesProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/2745802.2745806(1-14)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2015
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Montalvillo LDíaz O(2012)Evolution in Software Product Lines: An OverviewHandbook of Re-Engineering Software Intensive Systems into Software Product Lines10.1007/978-3-031-11686-5_20(495-512)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2012
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Michalik BWeyns D(2011)Towards a Solution for Change Impact Analysis of Software Product Line Products2011 Ninth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture10.1109/WICSA.2011.45(290-293)Online publication date: Jun-2011
https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2011.45

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