A retrospective on an industrial product-line project
Bran Selić · 2014
In this talk, we review the course of an industrial project involving a product line for a complex cybe-physical system. The project involved an industry partner and a research institute in Norway, Simula Research Laboratory. The product is a subsea oil and gas extraction facility. Each instance of the product must be adapted to fit a specific physical location, individual customer requirements, various government and industry regulations, and the like. Characteristically for this type of systems, the role of software is growing to the point where more and more functionality is being realized with it and, as any experienced software engineer would recognize and expect, where it is also becoming an increasing source of challenges and difficulties.