The Second Software
Product Line
Conference
Conference Panels
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The Second Software
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| Wednesday, August 21 |
 1:00 – Conference Workshop Summaries |
| 4:30 – Tool Support
for Product Lines: What We Have and What We Need |
| Thursday, August 22 |
| 11:00 – Software
Product Lines: Crossing the Chasm |
| 3:00 –
Product Line Hall of Fame |
Moderator: David Weiss, Director of Software Technology Research, Avaya Laboratories
Panelists:
Charles Krueger, BigLever Software, Inc.
Bedir
Tekinerdogan, University of Twente
Grady Campbell, Prosperity Heights
Software
Daniel Simon, Universität Stuttgart, Institut für
Informatik
We in the product line community have long decried the lack of tool support specifically geared to help manage the multi-dimensional production capability inherent in the software product line approach. After several years, though, some tool vendors are responding to the challenge. What tools are out there, and how do they compare with the needs (real or perceived) of product line practitioners?
This panel will explore that question. Each panel member has been chosen because of his experience in building product-line-related tool technology. After a short opening statement by each, the session will turn to the audience for questions and discussion about where we should go from here.
Moderator: Stuart Faulk, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon
Panelists:
Dan Paulish, Siemens
Scott Preece, Motorola
Sergio Bandinelli, European Software Institute
Linda Northrop, Software
Engineering Institute
We know that software product lines represent a way to achieve true order-of-magnitude improvements in cost, schedule, and quality, something of a holy grail of the software engineering community. Given that, why isn't everyone using the approach where it is applicable?
The theme of this panel is how we as a community can help bridge the gap between those of us who know the benefits of software product lines, and industry and practice at large where the idea is still considered risky, unproven, and avant garde—where it is even considered at all.
The panel members each bring a unique perspective to the problem of transitioning software product line practice to the community. Technology transition organizations and academic institutions will represent the "push" side of the problem, while industrial practitioners will speak to the "pull" side of the equation.
Each panel member will make a short position statement, but the bulk of the session will be turned over to audience questioning and discussion.
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