Software product lines spls, or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production the carnegie mellon software engineering institute defines a software product line as a set of softwareintensive systems that share a. Software product lines adoption proceedings of the third. An important objective of this product line practices model is that it should be easily. Software product lines guide books acm digital library. Analysis and comparison of software product line frameworks. Currently pdf generation code looks horrible, hardcoded and not flexible, so there is a lot of duplication and everything is highly coupled. I am using itextpdf for generating reports, so it works well. For a selection of features, specialized products of one domain can be generated automatically from domain artifacts. Bibliography of software language engineering in generated hypertext bibsleigh is created and.
Linda northrop is director of the product line systems program at the sei and chaired the first annual international conference on software product lines. This is a category of articles relating to software which can be freely used, copied, studied, modified, and redistributed by everyone that obtains a copy. Software product lines, serviceoriented architecture and. Create your citations, reference lists and bibliographies automatically using the apa, mla, chicago, or harvard referencing styles. Programming according to the fences and gates model for developing assured, secure software systems, number msucse062, institution department of. I believe that task process patterns are a key component of a software process, but that phase and stage process patterns are needed to organize them and to put them into a meaningful context for your organization. An overview on analysis tools for software product lines. Software product lines can be described in terms of four simple concepts, as illustrated in the figure below. In software product lines, software products are developed from product line core assets. The title of your posting mentions bibtex, yet youve tagged both bibtex and biblatex, which are two different systems. Corporate or business unit initiatives set goals and often mandate strategies to achieve those goals. Based on a 2layer feature model for the domain of the companys business processes, individual, albeit similar divisions erp system configurations can be derived by feature. A software product line is a portfolio of similar software based systems and products produced from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production. Software product lines have emerged as a new software development paradigm of great importance.
Jul 12, 2002 software product lines have received considerable adoption in the software industry and prove to be a very successful approach to intraorganizational software reuse. In providing a comprehensive set of practices and patterns, this book defines and explores the key activities for software product line development and explains. The life span of a software productline architecture is much longer than the one of an ordinary software product and it serves as a basis for a set of related systems. The word, bibtex stands for a tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references, mostly in conjunction with latex documents. Software product line engineering with feature models. Reporting design patterns are an important part of the objectoriented design of inetsoft enterprise products. Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the co. Using bibtex for dataset citation building an archive. This book provides a framework of specific practices, with detailed case studies, to guide the implementation of product lines in your organization. Therefore, the productline architecture should be adaptable to evolution as well as support a number of different products. Jun 15, 2003 the following paragraphs provide a brief overview of the architectural analysis process. The approach is intended for distributed realtime embedded software domains and has been applied to a space flight spl.
Software product lines is the culmination of an intensive investigation, undertaken by the software engineering institute sei at carnegie mellon, into how leadingedge software development organizations have retooled for product lines. Software product lines represent a solution for massive. Jabref free reference manager stay on top of your literature. As the name suggests, it was intended to be used in combination with the typesetting system latex, but it has become possible, for instance, to include bibtexbibliographies even in. In section 2, we give a short introduction to software product lines using a running example and we present an overview on important software analysis that have been applied to soft. Integrating a product production method with a software. This work extends the activities in such ventures to developing and managing software product lines. Paul clements is a senior member of the technical staff at the sei, where he works on software architecture and product line engineering. In the main body of your paper, you should cite references by using ncitefkeyg where key is the name you gave the bibliography entry. Each version represents an incremental attempt to capture the latest information about successful software product line practices. Best practicespatterns for generation pdf reports software. A framework for software product line practice, version 5. Use the following template to cite a government publication using the bibtex generic citation style citation style. As long as you want only a pdf version of your report, its enough to simply apply good factoring practices.
Schmid, k scoping software product lines an analysis of an emerging technology. Maryland software patterns and practices linthicum heights. Analysis strategies for software product lines 3 we refer the reader to a recent survey benavides et al. Bibliography of software language engineering in generated hypertext bibsleigh is created and maintained by dr. The problem is not exactly in pdf generation but in approach. Designed by academics for academics, under continuous development since 2003, and used by both individuals and major research institutions worldwide, wikindx is a single or multiuser virtual research environment an enhanced online bibliography manager storing searchable references, notes, files, citations, ideas. The main difference from normal, oneofakind software development, is a logical separation between the development of core, reusable software assets the platform, and actual applications. Software product line also includes designs and documents, user guides, project management artifacts such as budgets and schedules, and software test plans and test data 2. Due to increasing and important research on software design, models are the main target on software testing on early stages of software development. With explanations of fundamental concepts further illuminated by realworld experience, this book spells.
Introduction to the emerging practice of software product. Early generation spl techniques and case studies have provided an invaluable view into the pros. Product lines are, of course, nothing new in manufacturing. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. It is therefore, important to perform proper testing in software product lines, using the right steps. However, analyses of software product lines need to handle a large number of products that can be exponential. Product lines are common in many ventures, for example automobile and aircraft development. To have your reference list or bibliography automatically made for you, try our free citation generator. Basic behavioral models for software product lines. Colored model based testing for software product lines farrag, 2010 2010. If its bibtex, please also indicate which bibliography style you employ. Here you will find everything you need to know about bibtex.
Software product lines spl is an approach to develop related systems reusing a managed set of core assets sharing functionality and quality attributes 4. A full template and example to help you write a citation for a government publication in the bibtex generic citation style style. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Likewise, as climate model developers code and validate new science into the models, the changes. A framework for software product line practice version 4. We try to make the topics we cover relevant to all programming languages, frameworks, and platforms. Programming according to the fences and gates model for developing assured, secure software systems, number msu. Software product lines spls, or software product line development, refers to software engineering methods, tools and techniques for creating a collection of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production. Public reporting burden for the collection of information is estimated to. How to reference a government publication in bibtex. Oct 07, 2017 it is necessary to execute the pdflatex command, before the bibtex command, to tell bibtex what literature we cited in our paper. Software product line architecture for distributed real. Software product lines however, before we introduce the example, well take a small detour into the basis of sple. Introduction to software product lines springerlink.
This 2001 report is a case study of the control channel toolkit cct, a software asset base for a software product line of groundbased spacecraft command and control systems built under the direction of the nro. Another definition of software product lines, in 4 is. Modeling executable architectural design patterns for. Raqueo 7 417 why you want to learn bibtex complements latex documents by managing bibliography and references minimizes the drudgery of formatting, numbering, and referencing disadvantage. Practices and patterns clements, paul, northrop, linda on. Establishing effective change management practices to prevent uncontrolled evolution of the product platform. Proceedings of the first software product line conference splc1, pp. Reference management, bibliography management, citations and a whole lot more. Bibtex is a bibliographic tool that is used with latex to help organize the users references and create a bibliography.
In summary software product lines epitomize the concept of strategic, planned reuse. Existing literature, however, often presents only a single approach towards adopting and evolving a software product line. Part 1 provides the conceptual framework for software product lines, with an emphasis on practice areas. Bibtex templates rsi 2012 sta 2012 here are the templates you should use in your biblio. Our meetings are characterized by lots of interesting questions and discussion. Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the concept of product lines is relatively new to the software industry. Testing product generation in software product lines using. Reporting design patterns inetsoft product information.
The software product line strategy is a comprehensive approach that touches many facets of an organization. Sep 25, 2012 other books paul has coauthored include documenting software architectures. The product line concept is about more than a new technology. Software reuse and product line engineering springerlink. A software product line case study october 2001 technical report paul c. A software product line is a family of systems that share a common set of core technical assets, with preplanned extensions and variations to address the needs of specific customers or market segments. Format references in one of the many thousand builtin citation styles or create your style. Author is a senior member of the technical staff at the sei where he works on software architecture and product line engineering. Citeasyouwrite functionality for external applications such as emacs, kile, lyx, texmaker, texstudio, vim and winedt. However, analyses of software product lines need to handle a large number of products that can be exponential in the number of features. Write utility functions, extract common code into subroutines, choose good method names, and after a while youll have a pretty decent maintainable report generator. Use the type field to specify the type and the location field to indicate the scope of the patent, if different from the scope implied by the type.
Most spl development processes identify three stages. Software product lines spl aim at reducing timetomarket and increasing software quality through extensive, planned reuse of artifacts. Software testing is an essential activity to improve products quality garousi and mntyl, 2016. The number or record token is given in the number field.
However, product line practice in the software industry is a relatively new concept. Krut, jr this document describes the activities and practices in which an organization must be competent. Use the following template to cite a report using the bibtex generic citation style citation style. Nov 15, 2010 software product lines are often not created in a linear fashionthat is, during product development of individual family members, there is a strong feedback loop leading to modification of the core assets and possibly creation of new core assets.
Software product line spl engineering refers to the engineering and management techniques to create, evolve, and sustain a software product line. Clements contributor reed little, john mcgregor, liam obrien, felix bachmann, john k. Software product line initiation, even green field initiatives, typically occurs in an existing corporate environment. Software product lines, software modeling, software architectural design patterns, distributed realtime. Bibtex introduction this is the first draft of this document. The concepts of software product line engineering sple have been adapted and applied to enterprise it systems, in particular the erp systems of a production company.
The next two steps merge the reference section with our latex document and then assign successive numbers in the last step. Views and beyond, second edition addisonwesley, 2011 and evaluating software architectures. Pdf a framework for software product line engineering. Typically, this means software which is distributed with a free software license, and whose source code is available to anyone who receives a copy of the software.
See below for what these will look like in your references section. Here you can learn about the bibtex file format, how to use bibtex and bibtex tools which can help you to ease your bibtex usage. Since this application built on an existing product, rather than initiating a new product line, the analysis began with an effort to recover, i. Boeing builds one, and so do ford, dell, and even mcdonalds. The use of design patterns not only facilitates ease of use. There are essential product line activities and practices areas. To have your reference list or bibliography automatically made for. Format references in one of the many thousand builtin. Change management patterns in software product lines. How to reference a report in bibtex generic citation.
Software product line engineering as a field of study can be traced back to the mid1970s, although examples of actual software product lines built by farsighted practitioners can be found much earlier. A software product line is a set of different software products that share commonalities. The word,bibtex stands for a tool and a file format which are used to describe and process lists of references, mostly in conjunction with latex documents. An essential activity in spl is variability management, i. The following citation, which is still enlightening today. For help with other source types, like books, pdfs, or websites, check out our other guides. Methods and case studies, addisonwesley, 2002, and software product lines. In 1995 the nowclassic text design patterns by erich gamma. He is the author of five books and more than three dozen papers on these and other topics. Discusses practices and patterns of software product lines. Bibtex has been widely in use since its introduction by oren patashnik 20 years ago. The benefits of applying a software product lines spl approach have encouraged small and mediumsized enterprises smes for its adoption. The remainder of this survey is structured as follows.
A bibtex user creates a bibliography file that is separate from the latex source file, wth a file extension of. Klaus pohl is coauthor of over 90 referred publications in the area of requirements and software engineering. Native bibtex and biblatex support, perfect for textbased typesetting systems such as latex and markdown. Each reference in the bibliography file is formatted with a certain structure and is given a key by which. Product lines have been used by the manufacturing industry for a long time to reduce costs and increase productivity by exploiting commonalties between products. Studies have shown that organizations can yield remarkable improvements mainly in productivity by applying this. Case tool support for variability management in software. Practices and patterns clements, paul, northrop, linda m.
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