First International Workshop on Multi Product Line Engineering (MultiPLE 2013)
Leon Moonen, Razieh Behjati, Rick Rabiser, Mithun P. Acharya, Bedir Teki̇nerdoğan, Kyo-Chul Kang · 2013
In an industrial context, software systems are rarely developed by a single organization. For software product lines, this means that various organizations collaborate to provide and integrate the assets used in a product line. It is not uncommon that these assets themselves are built as product lines, a practice which is referred to as multi product lines. This cross-organizational distribution of reusable assets leads to numerous challenges, such as inconsistent configuration, costly and time-consuming integration, diverging evolution speed and direction, and inadequate testing.