Software Architecture for Product Families: Principles and Practice - Hardcover

Jazayeri, Mehdi; Ran, Alexander; Van Der Linden, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201699672 ISBN 13: 9780201699678

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2000

Synopsis

Software development organizations are now discovering the efficiencies that can be achieved by architecting entire software product families together. In Software Architecture for Product Families, experts from one of the world's most advanced software domain engineering projects share in-depth insights about the techniques that work -- and those that don't. The book offers a solutions-oriented, case-study approach covering the entire development lifecycle, based on advanced work done by three of Europe's leading technology companies and their academic partners. Discover the challenges that drive companies to consider architecting product families, and the new problems they encounter in doing so. Master concepts and terms that can be used to describe the architecture of a product family; then learn how to assess that architecture, and transform it into working applications. The authors also present chapter-length, real-world case studies of domain engineering projects at Nokia, Philips, and ABB.

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About the Author

Mehdi Jazayeri is a professor of computer science and heads the Distributed Systems Group at the Technical University of Vienna. He has extensive experience in industry, and has held both technical and management positions at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Synapse Computer Corporation, and TRW Vidar. He has co-authored textbooks on software engineering, programming languages, and software processes. Alexander Ran is a Principal Scientist of Software Architecture at Nokia Research Center, where he leads research projects, provides consulting, and conducts architectural assessments of products for Nokia Business Units. Alexander is a contributor to the first and second PLoP books. He served as program co-chair of the First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and the First Software Product Lines Conference. He was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and a keynote speaker on product families at the Symposium on Software Reusability. Frank van der Linden has been a researcher with Philips Research Laboratories for 15 years. Frank has broad experience in the component architecture of diverse electronic consumer and professional products. He recently moved to Philips Medical Systems, and is the editor of the proceedings for the special workshop on Software Architecture for Product Families being offered at ICSE.

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From the Back Cover

"The section on architectural concepts is superb."

--Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute

"The authors present a very knowledgeable presentation about software development and software architecture. There are good techniques here that would interest other software architects and designers."

--Henry McNair, Hewlett-Packard

The fast pace of modern business is creating new challenges for software engineers. These professionals are faced with the daunting assignment of delivering more robust software for less money--and in less time. In addition, many must now learn to efficiently develop software for a suite, or family, of products. Research has shown that a product-line approach to creating software can be achieved, but where does a software practitioner turn for information and guidance on such a major, potentially difficult transition?

Using an example-based approach, Software Architecture for Product Families provides the software engineering community with a valuable resource for devising and, more importantly, implementing a successful product-family architecture. The concepts and technologies set forth in this book are based on the authors' cutting-edge experiences with the ARES (Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems) Project, a major European research initiative that proved that software reuse can be attained more easily through a product-family approach.

This book simplifies the intimidating process of learning how to design software for product-line engineering by focusing on three key aspects of architectural practice: architecture description, assessment, and recovery. Practitioners will learn how to pinpoint the source of their problems, focus on the big picture, and see what kinds of problems can be addressed with the product-family approach. With this book as a guide, software developers will be able to implement a sound product-family architecture that will result in better quality, reduced costs, and decreased time to market.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201699672
• ISBN 13: 9780201699678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288