Research
2006
Towards an Agile Process for Building Software Product Lines
Richard Paige, Xiaochen Wang, Zoë Stephenson, Philip Brooke
Presented at the 7th International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, XP2006, Oulu, Finland, June 17-22, 2006
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, XP2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4044, pp198-199
Software product lines are sets of software systems that share common features. Product lines are built as if they were a family of products, identifying those features that change and those that can be reused. There is an evident incompatibility between the requirements of software product lines and agile practices. We report on experiments that used Feature-Driven Development to build software product lines, and describe the minor extensions that were useful for developing software product lines.