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Product line (PL) engineering is a software engineering paradigm, which guides organizations toward the development of products from core assets rather than the development of products one by one from scratch [1–3]. Two major activities of PL software engineering are core asset development (i.e., PL engineering) and product development (i.e., application engineering) using the core assets.
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The conceptual architecture describes a system in terms of abstract, high-level components and relationships between them.
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The process architecture represents a concurrency structure in terms of concurrent processes (or tasks) to which functional elements are allocated; the deployment architecture shows an allocation of processes to hardware resources.
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When products are developed with integration of components implementing various features, these features may interact with each other. The problem of unexpected side effects when a feature is added to a set of features is generally known as the feature interaction problem.
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Kang, K.C., Lee, H., Lee, J. (2013). Variability in the Software Product Line Life cycle. In: Capilla, R., Bosch, J., Kang, KC. (eds) Systems and Software Variability Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36583-6_8
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