Abstract
A Product Line Potential Analysis enables us to make a quick decision as to whether the product line approach (PLA) is suitable for a given set of products and target market. The PLA framework offers no support for this as yet.
A Product Line Potential Analysis is executed in a half-day workshop. A structured interview based on a questionnaire examines products, software, markets, and customers. The answers are compared to a set of criteria for the applicability of the PLA. The analysis results primarily in one of these decisions: “yes” (the PLA is suitable for these products and markets), “no”, or “investigation required”. Up to now, our team has performed four Product Line Potential Analyses.
We present the list of criteria, a part of our questionnaire, and the workshop format. We discuss Product Line Potential Analysis in the light of related work and its limits and lessons learned, and we look at future work.
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Fritsch, C., Hahn, R. (2004). Product Line Potential Analysis. In: Nord, R.L. (eds) Software Product Lines. SPLC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28630-1_14
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