Product line Development Architectural Model

TL;DR

This paper discusses the architecture of product line engineering, emphasizing reuse, design issues, and UML profiling to improve efficiency and quality in rapid product development.

Contribution

It presents a detailed architecture model for product line engineering and explores design issues and UML profiling through a case study of CelsiusTech's naval product line.

Findings

Product line engineering enhances productivity and quality.

UML profiles can effectively model product line architectures.

Case study demonstrates practical application of the proposed architecture.

Abstract

Products with new features need to be introduced on the market in a rapid pace and organizations need to speed up their development process. The ordinary way to develop products, one at a time, is not time efficient enough and is costly. Reuse has been suggested as a solution, but to achieve effective reuse within an organization a planned and proactive effort must be used. Product lines are the most promising technique and it increases productivity and software quality and decreases time-to-market. This paper describes the architecture of product line engineering process and also addresses what the design issues of product line architecture are and how a UML profile looks like for a product line by referring to the basic aspects of a case study, CelsiusTech in its Naval Product Line, SS2000.