Software reflexion models: bridging the gap between source and high-level models
SIGSOFT '95 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
PuLSE: a methodology to develop software product lines
SSR '99 Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Software reusability
Measuring Clone Based Reengineering Opportunities
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Calculating ROI for Software Product Lines
IEEE Software
Defining a strategy to introduce a software product line using existing embedded systems
EMSOFT '06 Proceedings of the 6th ACM & IEEE International conference on Embedded software
A scalable goal-oriented approach to software variability recovery
Proceedings of the 15th International Software Product Line Conference, Volume 2
Supporting commonality and variability analysis of requirements and structural models
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2
A systematic review of quality attributes and measures for software product lines
Software Quality Control
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Engine Control Systems (ECS) for automobiles have many variants for many manufactures and several markets. To improve their development efficiency, exploiting ECS commonalities and predicting their variability are mandatory. The concept of software product line engineering meets this ECS business background. However, we should carefully investigate the expected technical, economical, and organizational effects of introducing the strategy into existing products. Thereafter, a strategy will be derived systematically and realize the desired benefits.This paper reports an experience with the up-front investigation performed for Hitachi's ECS. We focus on the approach to plan the migration of the existing family of individual systems into a future product line. The approach assesses potential ways of merging software from existing variants and eventually defines a procedure for performing the migration. To get a high quality strategy, we integrate the approach of software measurement, the expertise of software architects, and reverse engineering techniques.