Software Product Line Engineering doesn’t get a lot of mainstream coverage so it’s nice to see that the Fall 2006 issue of Methods and Tools has a couple of articles on this very topic.

The first article is a good overall introduction to the Software Product Line approach. The second covers incremental adoption of Software Product Lines at Engenio Storage Group and shows that Software Product Lines can be adopted in months not years.

If this arouses your interest then watch out for Winter’s Methods and Tools that will contain an article on managing your Software Product Line with Feature Modelling written by Dr. Danilo Beuche of pure-systems GmbH and yours truly.