Workshop 2 (W2)
10th
International Software Product Line Conference
(SPLC 2006)
21-24 August
2006
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
APLE - 1st International Workshop on Agile Product Line
Engineering
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/events/aple/
21
August 2006
Organizers/Contacts:
Kendra Cooper, Dept. of Computer
Science, University of Texas at Dallas - Texas, USA
Xavier Franch, Software Department,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Catalunya, Spain
Description
The need to rapidly
develop high quality, complex software continues to drive research in a number
of (separate) areas in the software engineering community. For example,
software product line development techniques have been of keen interest as
means to re-use and tailor technical assets including models (requirements
specifications, design), implementation, and test cases. A main focus in this
area is to effectively create sets of related products by re-using and
tailoring managed assets. Agile development techniques have also been proposed
to rapidly develop software by focusing on developing working code; they seek
to minimize the amount of documentation, process definition, and model
development. It is interesting to note that although the goals of the two
techniques have similarities (rapidly develop high quality, complex software),
the solutions to realize the goals in the techniques seem to conflict. The
theme of this workshop is to probe the following question: Given the similar
goals but different foci of agile and product-line development techniques, to
what degree can (or should) they be integrated?
Publication
of Selected Papers
It's our pleasure to announce a special issue on
"Agile Product Line Engineering" of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS,
Elsevier). Extended versions of selected papers presented at this workshop will
be considered for publication in this issue.
Submission (extended!): The extended deadline for submissions is June 9, 2006. For more information please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.lsi.upc.edu/events/aple/.
