A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development

October 1, 1996 • SEI Report

By
Lisa Brownsword and Paul C. Clements

This report describes the experience of a company that builds large, complex, embedded, real-time shipboard command-and-control systems as a product line.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-96-TR-016

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Abstract

This report describes the experience of a company that builds large, complex, embedded, real-time shipboard command-and-control systems as a product line.

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APA

Brownsword, L., & Clements, P. (1996, October 1). A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development. (SEI Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-016). Retrieved June 20, 2026, from https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/a-case-study-in-successful-product-line-development/.

BibTeX

@techreport{brownsword_1996,
author={Brownsword, Lisa and Clements, Paul},
title={A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development},
month={Oct},
year={1996},
number={{CMU/SEI-96-TR-016},
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
url={https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/a-case-study-in-successful-product-line-development/},
note={Accessed: 2026-Jun-20}
}

CHI

Brownsword, Lisa, and Paul Clements. "A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development." (CMU/SEI-96-TR-016). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, October 1, 1996. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/a-case-study-in-successful-product-line-development/.

IEEE

L. Brownsword, and P. Clements, "A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Software Engineering Institute, SEI Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-016, 1-Oct-1996 [Online]. Available: https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/a-case-study-in-successful-product-line-development/. [Accessed: 20-Jun-2026].

MLA

Brownsword, Lisa, and Paul Clements. "A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development." (SEI Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-016). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Oct. 1996. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/a-case-study-in-successful-product-line-development/. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.

SEI

Brownsword, Lisa; & Clements, Paul. A Case Study in Successful Product Line Development. CMU/SEI-96-TR-016. Software Engineering Institute. 1996. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/a-case-study-in-successful-product-line-development/

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