Salion, Inc.: A Software Product Line Case Study

7 For Further Reading

Other SEI software product line case studies have detailed the experiences of

CelsiusTech, a Swedish defense contractor that adopted the product line approach for its family of very large real-time embedded naval ship systems [Brownsword & Clements 96], [Bass et al. 98]

Control Channel Toolkit (CCT), a satellite ground control systems' asset base procured by the U.S. government [Clements & Northrop 02]

Market Maker Software AG, a small German company that builds financial Web sites for major banking institutions [Clements & Northrop 02]

Cummins, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of large diesel engines, that used the product line approach to parlay 20 basic releases into over 1,000 separate products and achieve a dominant position in the industrial diesel engine market [Clements & Northrop 02]

Other SEI reports illustrate the product line approach from the point of view of a government acquisition agency [Bergey & Goethert 01] or concentrate on particular technical aspects of fielding a product line. Those aspects include building a business case [Cohen 01] and carrying out architecture reconstruction [O'Brien 01]. In addition to these publications, the proceedings of the first two international Software Product Line Conferences (SPLC1 and SPLC2) include many papers that contain detailed experience reports from organizations that have adopted the product line approach [Donohoe 00], [Chastek 02].

Clements and Northrop offer a comprehensive treatment of the software product line approach, including a description of the 29 software engineering, technical management, and organizational management practice areas [Clements & Northrop 02].

[Title Page] [Abstract] [Acknowledgments] [1 Introduction] [2 Background] [3 How Salion Builds Its Software Product Line] [4 Payoffs and Benefits] [5 Conclusions and Lessons Learned] [6 Conclusions] [7 For Further Reading] [References] [DTIC Page] [PDF file]