Published by ETH Zurich, Chair of Software Engineering ©JOT, 2005 Ideas from SPLC

Software product lines continue to provide adopters with gains in many areas such as faster time to market and increased productivity. The recent Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) provided a forum in which a spectrum of results were reported. In this issue of Strategic Software Engineering I will use the activities at SPLC to focus on a couple of interesting areas that have strategic importance.