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Extending the analogy of software architecture views and quality attributes for software process architecture, I'd like to spend some time discussing software product lines. According to the SEI website on software product-lines, A Software Product-Line is defines as follows: A software product line (SPL) is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way. At SoftwareProductsLines.com, Charles Krueger defines them as follows: Software product lines refers to engineering techniques for creating a portfolio of similar software systems from a shared set of software assets using a common means of production. Closely related to software product lines is the notion of software product families and Product Family Engineering. In many cases the terms product-line and product-family are used interchangeably. Sometimes a product-family is slightly more general in that a product-family may comprise one or more product-lines. The SEI has established a Framework for Software Product-Line Practices that encompasses topics such as architecture, organization, patterns, business-case, and even a section on configuration management for software product-lines.  Posted: 2008-03-17 02:05:00Author:Brad Appleton
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