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Domain Potential Analysis: Calling the Attention on Business Issues of Product-Lines

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Software Architectures for Product Families (IW-SAPF 2000)

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Product-lines represent a natural step in the evolution of software development into an industrial practice. A product-line approach intrinsically leads to systematic reuse and reuse is supposed to have a positive impact in business terms: saving development and maintenance costs, time to market reduction, quality improvement, more predictable project execution, etc.

In an industrial context, the decision of adopting a product-line approach must take into account a wide range of factors. Technology is, of course, one of these factors, but it is not necessarily the most important one and, for sure, it is not the “driving factor”. The drivers for introducing a product-line approach are generally related to the general company strategy, taking into account market considerations. The product-line technology should be evaluated and used in this business context.

This work is partially funded by the European Commission under ESPRIT project P28651 PRAISE.

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Bandinelli, S., Sagardui Mendieta, G. (2000). Domain Potential Analysis: Calling the Attention on Business Issues of Product-Lines. In: van der Linden, F. (eds) Software Architectures for Product Families. IW-SAPF 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1951. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44542-5_9

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