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Product line adoption is a key issue in product line development, as the right adoption approach is central to the overall success of product line de velopment. Thus, this is a strongly discussed area of product line engineering. While so far, guidelines and experiences on the best approach to product line adoption have been presented, no detailed quantitative model was provided.
In this paper we present a quantitative model of the product line adoption problem. From this model we deduce general guidelines for product line adoption, particularly highlighting the role of the architecture in the cost-effective adoption of a product line.
This work has been partially funded by Eureka Σ! 2023 Programme, ITEA project ip00004, Café.
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Schmid, K. (2004). A Quantitative Model of the Value of Architecture in Product Line Adoption. In: van der Linden, F.J. (eds) Software Product-Family Engineering. PFE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24667-1_4
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