Structuring variability in the context of embedded systems during software engineering

André Heuer, Klaus Pohl
2013 Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems - VaMoS '14  
Software product line adoption is a challenging task in software development organisations. There are some reports in the literature of how software product line engineering has been adopted in several companies using different variability management techniques and patterns. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no empirical reports on how variability management is handled in companies that do not know about software product line methods and tools. In this paper we present an
more » ... ce report observing variability management practices in a software development company that was unaware of software product line approaches. We briefly report how variability management is performed in different areas ranging from business architecture to software assets management. From the observation we report some open research opportunities for the future and foster further similar and more structured empirical studies on unaware software product line companies.
doi:10.1145/2556624.2556642 dblp:conf/vamos/HeuerP14 fatcat:rqflhakf6ndphlee7q3fjutqcq