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Product Line Engineering

Product Line Engineering

Product line engineering is the systematic development of product variants with the aim of reusing a maximum of development artifacts in all phases and thereby minimizing the effort required to develop product variants. For this purpose, the variability of the envisioned product family is captured formally, variability-optimized product architectures are developed and reusable development artifacts are created. These serve as the basis for concrete product variants, which ideally can be synthesized to a large extent from existing elements.

With our combination of long-standing knowledge of the target markets and detailed understanding of technology, we advise on the optimal design of product lines (scoping) and their implementation in reusable architectures and partial solutions.

We help you to adapt your development processes for product line development and to select and integrate suitable development tools. We train your employees, conduct pilot projects and coach your teams during the introduction of this development approach.

Software Product Line Engineering

Product line engineering for software-based subsystems essentially follows the same approaches as general product line engineering, but offers more methodological freedom and opportunities for automation.

We support you in defining your development methodology for software product lines and in selecting and integrating the necessary tools.

We also advise on the optimization of software architectures for your product portfolio, support the definition of strategies for configuration management and product maintenance and the automation of individual implementation steps for software variants.

For the development of safety-relevant software product lines, we analyze the regulatory constraints and work with you to optimize the approaches for specification, implementation, and testing with the goal of the greatest possible reuse in all development phases.