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International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

PROFES 2018: Product-Focused Software Process Improvement pp 409–421Cite as

Mapping Agility to Automotive Software Product Line Concerns

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Context: Software product lines are widely used in automotive embedded software development. This software paradigm improves the quality of software variants by reuse. The combination of agile software development practices with software product lines promises a faster delivery of high quality software. However, the set up of an agile software product line is still challenging, especially in the automotive domain. Goal: This publication aims to evaluate to what extend agility fits to automotive product line engineering. Method: Based on previous work and two workshops, agility is mapped to software product line concerns. Results: This publication presents important principles of software product lines, and examines how agile approaches fit to those principles. Additionally, the principles are related to one of the four major concerns of software product line engineering: Business, Architecture, Process, and Organization. Conclusion: Agile software product line engineering is promising and can add value to existing development approaches. The identified commonalities and hindering factors need to be considered when defining a combined agile product line engineering approach.

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  1. Daimler AG, Research and Development, Ulm, Germany

    Philipp Hohl & Michael Stupperich

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Sven Theobald & Martin Becker

  3. Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany

    Jürgen Münch

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Hohl, P., Theobald, S., Becker, M., Stupperich, M., Münch, J. (2018). Mapping Agility to Automotive Software Product Line Concerns. In: Kuhrmann, M., et al. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03673-7_32

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