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Product Instantiation in Software Product Lines: A Case Study

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Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering (GCSE 2000)

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Product instantiation is one of the less frequently studied activities in the domain of software product lines. In this paper, we present the results of a case study at Axis Communication AB on product instantiation in an industrial product line, i.e. five problems and three issues. The problems are concerned the insufficiency of functional commonality, features spanning multiple components, the exclusion of unwanted features, the evolution of product line components and the handling of initialization code. The issues discuss architectural compliance versus product instantiation effort, quick-fixes versus properly engineered extensions and component instantiation support versus product instantiation effort. The identified problems and issues are based on the case study, but have been generalized to apply to a wider context.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 800, 9700, AV Groningen

    Jan Bosch

  2. Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology, S-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Mattias Högström

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada

    Greg Butler

  2. School of Computing, Dept. of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117543

    Stan Jarzabek

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Bosch, J., Högström, M. (2001). Product Instantiation in Software Product Lines: A Case Study. In: Butler, G., Jarzabek, S. (eds) Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering. GCSE 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2177. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44815-2_11

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