文档介绍：Software Product Line Engineering Curriculum
David M. Weiss
Zhou Minghui
Most software anizations proceed either by ad hoc modification of existing software to create new releases of a product, release-by-release or development of new products without taking much advantage of ponents for reuse..
Software product line engineering (SPLE) is a process for creating families of products so that members of the family can be efficiently produced. It integrates ideas from requirements specification and architecture and design to create production processes and tools that support generation of products. SPLE relies on three assumptions for its ess:
(Redevelopment Assumption) Most software development is mostly redevelopment,
(Oracle Assumption) It is possible to predict the types changes that are likely to be needed to a product,
(Organizational Assumption) It is possible anize the software and anization that produces it to take advantage of the predictions..
The initial engineering investment needed to do this is paid back in cost savings within two to four products. SPLE is spreading in popularity panies discover petitive advantages that it gives them. (For examples see /productlines/)
This course will describe the ideas underlying software product line engineering and show how the assumptions are applied in a software development process. Both academic and indu