Software Product Lines Third International Conference, SPLC 2004, Boston, MA, USA, August 30-September 2, 2004, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2004, held in Boston, MA, USA in August/September 2004.

The 18 revised full technical papers presented together with a keynote abstract and summaries of panels, tutorials, and workshops were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Organized in sections on business, architecture, and quality assurance, the papers address topics ranging from how to start a software product line in a company, to case studies of mature product lines and the technology used, to test strategies of product lines, to strategies and notations for creating product line architectures, and to the importance of binding times in creating product lines.

Technical Papers.- Governing Software Product Lines and Reorganizations.- Software Product Line Support in Coremetrics OA2004.- Introducing PLA at Bosch Gasoline Systems: Experiences and Practices.- Four Mechanisms for Adaptable Systems.- Automatic Generation of Program Families by Model Restrictions.- Dynamic Configuration of Software Product Lines in ArchJava.- Software Product Family Evaluation.- Practical Evaluation of Software Product Family Architectures.- On the Development of Software Product-Family Components.- Experiences in Software Product Families: Problems and Issues During Product Derivation.- A Feature-Based Approach to Product Line Production Planning.- COVAMOF: A Framework for Modeling Variability in Software Product Families.- Observations from the Recovery of a Software Product Family.- Product Line Potential Analysis.- Generalized Release Planning for Product Line Architectures.- A Methodology for the Derivation and Verification of Use Cases for Product Lines.- Staged Configuration Using Feature Models.- Scenario-Based Decision Making for Architectural Variability in Product Families.- Keynote Abstract.- Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools.- Panel Overviews.- Product Line Binding Times: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You.- Avoiding, Surviving, and Prevailing over Pitfalls in Product Line Engineering.- How Can Testing Keep Pace with Accelerated Development in Software Product Line Engineering?.- Tutorial Overviews.- Product Line Analysis.- Industrial-Strength Software Product Line Engineering.- Quality Assurance for Software Product Lines.- Product Line Architectures for Global Software Development.- Architecture-Centric Software Engineering.- Software Variability Management.- Designing SoftwareProduct Lines with the Unified Modeling Language (UML).- Developing a Measurement Program for Software Product Lines.- Starting Product Lines (I) — Systematic Product Line Planning and Adoption.- Starting Product Lines (II) — Product Line Analysis and Modeling.- Generative Software Development.- An Introduction to Software Product Lines.- Adopting Software Product Lines.- Using Domain-Specific Languages, Patterns, Frameworks, and Tools to Assemble Applications.- Workshop Overviews.- SPLiT – Workshop on Software Product Line Testing.- SPLYR – The First Software Product Lines Young Researchers Workshop.- Workshop on Modeling Business Issues of Software Product Lines.- Workshop on Quality Assurance in Reuse Contexts.- Workshop on Software Variability Management for Product Derivation — Towards Tool Support.- International Workshop on Solutions for Automotive Software Architectures: Open Standards, References, and Product Line Architectures.