Pragmatic Strategies for Variability Management in Product Lines in Small- to Medium-Size Companies

Abstract

If you deploy multiple product variants for variety of customers, you are already in the software Product Line (SPL) business. Most SPLs in small- to medium-size companies evolve from a single successful product. Each new product variant is often developed by ad hoc reuse - copy and modify - of source code files implementing existing products. As maintaining product variants and implementing new ones become more and more time-consuming, managing variability using more systematic SPL techniques can help a company sustain the business growth.