Product Line Engineering for Automation Software Systems

Together with Siemens VAI, Linz In this module we apply a product-line approach to automatically generate software from feature specifications that characterise individual members of the product line. As a result, both software engineers and sales people of our industrial partner will be supported in planning and developing new product line members and thereby maximising productivity and minimising defects and economic risks. The novelty of our research lies in the combination of approaches for modelling stakeholder needs, product features, architectural elements, and variability, in introducing business decision making in product line engineering, and in an innovative approach for making feature-based product configuration accessible to non-software-experts.