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Faster time to market and decreased development and maintenance costs are goals most companies are trying to reach. Product family engineering (PFE) provides a means of achieving these goals. Product family architecture (PFA) is the key issue in family engineering. However, companies have to decide how to adopt PFE and how to develop their software PFA. This paper introduces the basic issues essential to PFA development, explores three different approaches to applying PFAs in industrial settings, and, finally, presents the evaluation results through an evaluation model of software product families.
This work was carried out in the Eureka (( 2023 Programme, ITEA project ip02009, FAMILIES. We wish to thank the interviewed companies for their contribution.
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Niemelä, E., Matinlassi, M., Taulavuori, A. (2004). Practical Evaluation of Software Product Family Architectures. In: Nord, R.L. (eds) Software Product Lines. SPLC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28630-1_8
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