Software Product Line Adoption Roadmap
Abstract
The tremendous benefits of taking a software product line approach are well documented. Organizations have achieved significant reductions in cost and time to market and, at the same time, increased the quality of families of their software systems. However, to date, there are considerable barriers to organizational adoption of product line practices and to widespread product line practice. The Carnegie Mellon (Trademark) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) created the Product Line Practice Initiative to help organizations adopt product line practices. The purpose of this initiative has, from the outset, been to make product line practice a low-risk, high-return proposition for all developers and acquirers. Its major contribution to fulfill this objective has been the SEI Framework for Software Product Line Practice (henceforth referred to as the Framework), which describes the 3 essential activities and 29 practice areas necessary for mastery of a software product line approach. The Framework has proven to be a useful reference model used by organizations worldwide. This report introduces a variant of the Factory pattern, the Adoption Factory pattern, which provides a clear, generic road map to software product line adoption. The report concludes with a summary of the Carnegie Mellon (Trademark) Software Engineering Institute's experiences with the Adoption Factory pattern and its future plans for using it.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA431117
Entities
People
- Linda M. Northrop
Organizations
- Carnegie Mellon University