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Record W2095300853 · doi:10.1145/505776.505783

Perspectives on software product lines

2001· article· en· W2095300853 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoftware product lineProduct engineeringComputer scienceSoftware developmentDomain engineeringNew product developmentProduct managementProduct (mathematics)Software engineeringRisk analysis (engineering)SoftwareSystems engineeringProcess managementComponent-based software engineeringProduct designEngineeringBusinessMarketing

Abstract

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Product line engineering is a concept that has emerged in the 80's in the business schools and is now among the hottest topics in software engineering.Software product lines aim at achieving scope economies through synergetic development of software products. Diverse benefits like cost reduction, decreased time-to-market, and quality improvement can be expected from reuse of domain-specific software assets. But also non-technical benefits can be expected as result of network externalities, product branding, and sharing organizational costs.Product lines introduce additional complexity. In a sense they go against the common adage of "divide and conquer." Planning and/or developing of more than one product at a time have to be managed technically and organizationally.However, the rate of innovation of the technology and the intrinsic nature of software products do not let alternatives to developers: users like to jump into the bandwagon of new products, and old products often drive preferences to new products.Research has been conducted in software product lines for the past few years. Some of it has focused on demonstrating that existing systems and approaches were indeed instrumental for product line development, such as generative techniques, domain analysis and engineering and software components. Another portion of the research effort has tried to determine how it is possible to create a comprehensive methodology and an associated tool for product lines, starting from the business idea of line of products down to the development of a product and trying to exploit all the possible synergies existing at each phase, from network externalities to component reuse.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.378
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.631
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.378
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it