Identifying improvement potential in evolving product line infrastructures
Thomas Patzke, Martin G. Becker, Michaela Steffens, Krzysztof Sierszecki, Juha Erik Savolainen, Thomas Fogdal · 2012
Successful software products evolve continuously to meet the changing stakeholder requirements. For software product lines, an additional challenge is that variabilities, characteristics that vary among products, change as well over time. That challenge must be carefully tackled during the evolution of the product line infrastructure. This is a significant problem for many software development organizations, as practical guidelines on how to evolve core assets, and especially source code, are missing.