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software product lines
Resources for Getting Started with Software Product Lines
The purpose of the SEI’s Product Line Practice initiative is to make software product line development and acquisition a low-risk, high-return proposition for all organizations. Organizations of all sizes, government and commercial, are achieving order-of-magnitude improvements in cost, quality, and time to market using the software product line approach—improvements the scale of which the field has not seen since the advent of high-level programming languages decades ago.
The Product Line Practice initiative has a broad selection of products and services available to help organizations cross barriers and hurdles between their current state and the successful development of a software product line. The initiative has just added a new resource to this selection: The SEI has recently compiled a catalog of 42 examples of software product lines that have been described in the open scientific literature.