Introduction

The previous chapters of this book have presented a number of different techniques that are useful for developing software product lines (SPLs). These techniques can be combined in a variety of ways for different SPLs; each SPL is likely to require its own combination of techniques. To provide some guidance for SPL engineers, this and the next chapter discuss different scenarios for product line development and explain the ways in which the techniques previously presented can be used in these scenarios.

This chapter focuses on product-driven SPL engineering. We begin by explaining what we mean by this term, followed by an identification of requirements for this SPL scenario and a description of an approach for systematically developing such SPLs. The chapter closes by discussing the approach and how it meets the initial requirements as well as the challenges discussed in Chapter 1.