Variability management strategies to support efficient delivery and maintenance of embedded systems

Susanna Teppola; Päivi Parviainen; Jari Partanen; Petri Kettunen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_31

Variability management strategies to support efficient delivery and maintenance of embedded systems

Susanna Teppola, Päivi Parviainen, Jari Partanen, Petri Kettunen

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Abstract

Software intensive organisations that are able to efficiently handle product variability can reach competitive advantage by shorter development lead times, improved customer satisfaction, and reduced costs of product management. Improved reusability and flexibility, combined with variability strategies can provide companies mechanisms to offer new product variants fast to customers. Especially for long living embedded systems, it is essential to effectively maintain the delivered systems and keep maintenance costs at reasonable level. This paper describes a case study in which three industrial product development projects were studied in order to understand which variability strategies were implemented in their specific variability context. Results indicate that variability challenges and selected variability strategies depend both on the product platform maturity, as well as, the project development model. However, variability strategy needs continuous evaluation during the product lifecycle.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Publisher	Springer
Pages	431-438
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-26844-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-26843-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_31
Publication status	Published - 5 Nov 2016
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015 - Bolzano, Italy Duration: 2 Dec 2015 → 4 Dec 2015 Conference number: 16

Publication series

Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	9459
ISSN	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015
Abbreviated title	PROFES 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bolzano
Period	2/12/15 → 4/12/15

Keywords

variability management
variability strategy

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Teppola, S, Parviainen, P, Partanen, J & Kettunen, P 2016, Variability management strategies to support efficient delivery and maintenance of embedded systems. in Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9459, pp. 431-438, 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015, Bolzano, Italy, 2/12/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26844-6_31

Variability management strategies to support efficient delivery and maintenance of embedded systems. / Teppola, Susanna; Parviainen, Päivi; Partanen, Jari et al.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. Springer, 2016. p. 431-438 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9459).

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