Software Product Line Engineering

This module teaches students the procedures and techniques for the development and maintenance of multi-variant software systems using software product lines. The lecture will provide an overview of the basic goals, processes, concepts and techniques in the development and maintenance of software product lines. It is subdivided into the subject areas of the problem space and the solution space. In the first topic area, topics such as feature-oriented domain analysis, feature models and analyses of the variant space are dealt with, whereas in the second topic area, different techniques for product generation and testing of product lines are discussed and demonstrated in practice. In addition, current results and questions from software product line research are presented and discussed.