Software Product Lines
The Software Product Line (SPL) approach to software development promises significant improvements in time-to-market, cost, and reliability, through the system identification and exploitation of commonalities and variations in software systems. The approach promotes asset re-use throughout the software life cycle, and facilitates product customisation. SPL has been applied successfully in a number of different domains, by large and small organisations alike.
Course dates
| 9th July 2012 | Oxford University Department of Computer Science | 12 places remaining. |
| 15th July 2013 | Oxford University Department of Computer Science | 18 places remaining. |
Objectives
This course presents a thorough and comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art practices in SPL, from analysis and design to implementation, to provide students with a unique perspective that empowers them to identify, assess, and tackle the challenges of SPL and reap its latent benefits.
Contents
- Challenges and Benefits of PLE
- Importance of PLE in software engineering practice, commonality and variability management, Domain Analysis, Domain Engineering
- Feature Oriented Design and Analysis
- Features, variation points, feature models
- Basic variability implementation technologies
- Generic programming, frames
- Aspect Oriented Programming
- AspectJ, aspects and their application to product lines
- Feature Oriented Programming
- Feature modules, product line development with AHEAD
- Product Line Validation and Testing
- Design rules, model validation
- Product Line Management
- Adoption, processes, evolution
- Product Lines in Industry
- Commercial tools, successful industry projects
- Research Trends
- Model-Driven Development of Product Lines