Software Product-Family Engineering

1. Product Derivation

   1. Differencing and Merging within an Evolving Product Line Architecture

      • Ping Chen, Matt Critchlow, Akash Garg, Chris Van der Westhuizen, André van der Hoek

      Pages 269-281

   2. A Relational Architecture Description Language for Software Families

      • T. John Brown, Ivor T. A. Spence, Peter Kilpatrick

      Pages 282-295

2. Transition to Family Development

   1. Planning and Managing Product Line Evolution

      • Louis J. M. Taborda

      Pages 296-309

   2. A Cost Model for Software Product Lines

      • Günter Böckle, Paul Clements, John D. McGregor, Dirk Muthig, Klaus Schmid

      Pages 310-316

   3. Salion’s Experience with a Reactive Software Product Line Approach

      • Ross Buhrdorf, Dale Churchett, Charles W. Krueger

      Pages 317-322

   4. Towards a Taxonomy for Software Product Lines

      • Charles W. Krueger

      Pages 323-331

   5. Architecture Recovery for Product Families

      • Martin Pinzger, Harald Gall, Jean-Francois Girard, Jens Knodel, Claudio Riva, Wim Pasman et al.

      Pages 332-351

3. Industrial Experience

   1. Software Product Family Evaluation

      • Frank van der Linden, Jan Bosch, Erik Kamsties, Kari Känsälä, Lech Krzanik, Henk Obbink

      Pages 352-369

   2. Design for Quality

      • Joachim Bayer

      Pages 370-380

   3. Economics of Software Product Lines

      • Dale R. Peterson

      Pages 381-402

   4. A Case Study of Two Configurable Software Product Families

      • Mikko Raatikainen, Timo Soininen, Tomi Männistö, Antti Mattila

      Pages 403-421

   5. Software Architecture Helpdesk

      • Anssi Karhinen, Juha Kuusela, Marco Sandrini

      Pages 422-428

4. Evolution

   1. Different Aspects of Product Family Adoption

      • Parastoo Mohagheghi, Reidar Conradi

      Pages 429-434

   2. Dynamic Software Reconfiguration in Software Product Families

      • Hassan Gomaa, Mohamed Hussein

      Pages 435-444

   3. Architecture True Prototyping of Product Lines Using Personal Computer Networks

      • Fons de Lange, Jeffrey Kang

      Pages 445-453

5. Decisions and Derivation

   1. Making Variability Decisions during Architecture Design

      • Len Bass, Felix Bachmann, Mark Klein

      Pages 454-465

   2. Decision Model and Flexible Component Definition Based on XML Technology

      • Jason Xabier Mansell, David Sellier

      Pages 466-472

   3. A Product Derivation Framework for Software Product Families

      • Sybren Deelstra, Marco Sinnema, Jan Bosch

      Pages 473-484

6. Back Matter

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This book contains the proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Product Family Engineering, PFE-5. This workshop was held in Siena, Italy, November 4–6, 2003. This workshop was the fifth in the series, with the same subject, software product family engineering. These workshops have been held initially irregularly about every 18 months since 1996. Since 1999 the workshop has been held every second year in the fall. The proceedings of the second, third and fourth workshops were published as Springer LNCS volumes 1429, 1951 and 2290. The workshops were organized within co-operation projects of European industry. The first two were organized by ARES (Esprit IV 20.477) 1995–1999; this project had 3 industrial and 3 academic partners, and studied software architectures for product families. Some of the partners continued in the ITEA project if99005 ESAPS (1999–2001). ITEA is the software development programme (?! 2023) within the European Eureka initiative. ITEA projects last for 2 years, and ESAPS was succeeded by CAFÉ (ITEA if00004) for 2001–2003 and FAMILIES (ITEA if02009). This fifth workshop was initially prepared within CAFÉ and the preparation continued in FAMILIES. As usual Henk Obbink was the workshop chair, and Linda Northrop and Sergio Bandinelli were the co-chairs.

• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• architecture
• configuration
• design
• modeling
• software architecture
• software management
• software patterns
• software process
• software product families
• software product family engineering
• software product line architectures
• software product validation
• testing
• verification

• Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, Netherlands

  Frank J. Linden

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