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Towards an Agile Process for Building Software Product Lines

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2006)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4044))

Abstract

Software product lines are sets of software systems that share common features. Product lines are built as if they were a family of products, identifying those features that change and those that can be reused. There is an evident incompatibility between the requirements of software product lines and agile practices. We report on experiments that used Feature-Driven Development to build software product lines, and describe the minor extensions that were useful for developing software product lines.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK

    Richard F. Paige, Xiaochen Wang & Zoë R. Stephenson

  2. School of Computing, University of Teesside, UK

    Phillip J. Brooke

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  1. VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. FlossLab s.r.l., viale Elmas, 142, 09122, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  3. Center for Applied Software Engineering Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Piazza Domenicani 1, 39100, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

    Giancarlo Succi

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Paige, R.F., Wang, X., Stephenson, Z.R., Brooke, P.J. (2006). Towards an Agile Process for Building Software Product Lines. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11774129_24

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  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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