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Software Product Line Engineering: Future Research Directions, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

The recent trend of switching from single software product development to
lines of software products in the software industry has made the software product line concept viable and widely accepted methodology in the future. Some of the potential benefits of this approach include cost reduction, improvement in quality and a decrease in product development time. Many organizations that deal in wide areas of operation, from consumer electronics, telecommunications, and avionics to information technology, are using software product lines practice because it deals with effective utilization of
software assets and provides numerous benefits. Software product line engineering is an inter-disciplinary concept. …