Presentation of the presenters

HENRIC ANDERSSON, Method development and industrial PhD candidate Saab Aeronautics

PresentationMy background

• Agriculture/farming 4 years• MsC in Control Engineering• ABB Carbon 3 years

• Modeling and simulation• Saab Aeronautics 14 years

• Flight Control• Project Management• Systems Engineering• Product Lines• Research / PhD study

Presentation of Kristoffer Johansson

KRISTOFFER JOHANSSON, Project Manager and business developer at HiQ

Presentation Kristoffer JohanssonMy background

• Ms.C Software engineering• Consultant & entrepreneur (6 years)

• Medical Technology• Project Manager & Agile

Teamleader• Simulation of embedded

systems• SW Developer

• Defence & Security• Simulation of embedded

systems• Project Manager & Agile

Teamleader• SW Developer

Agenda

•Introduction•Product Line basics•Software Build•Organization•Profits•Summary

Introduction

•What is productification?•What is a Product Line (PL)•Why PL (HW & SW)•Who needs it / can benefit from it

Introduction

Universal Business Goals

•High quality•Quick time to market•Market dominance•Market agility•Product alignment•Low cost production•Low cost maintenance•Mass customization

Introduction

Few systems are overall unique

• Most organizations produce families of similar systems differentiated by features.

• A reuse strategy makes sense.• Traditional reuse strategies have had little economic

benefit.

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Introduction

Agenda

•Introduction•Product Line basics•Software Build•Organization•Profits•Summary

PL Basics

(software) Re-Use principles

1. The copy-and-paste method 2. The configuration method

Two methods for software/information reuse

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PL Basics

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PL Basics

Examples of copy-and-paste

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• Several files and objects are copied every day we work• Drives the storage volume requirements• Problem with ”information-divergence”• Increasing maintenance cost• Boring work to update the same data at different places

• A whole repository with general models• Even more boring…..

PL Basics

Examples of SPL

• Saab; early examples from ”CelciusTech” • see ”Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns”

• Configuration by means of filters, views and generation• Several databases with report generators• E.g. Excel, DOORS; filters and views

• Embedded Computer Systems• Uses parameters for configuration• Primarily configuration at run-time• Parameters stored in Configuration files / DataBase (ConfDB)• Used in many products from e.g. Saab/Gripen, Scania, Ericsson…

PL Basics

Basic components of a SPL architecture PL Basics

Source: On Software Engineering, http://sftweng.wcorona.com

Agenda

•Introduction•Product Line basics•Software Build•Organization•Profits•Summary

SW Build

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SW Build

Binding Time (3)

• Run-time binding

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SW Build

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Creates Different source code variants

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Used for Reliable configuration

Implementation oriented configuration

Fast reconfiguration

Example When security / IRP aspects is important

Target / platform variation

Reconfiguration at end-user site

SW Build

Industrial usage of binding time

• There are more alternatives• model-time• design-time• translation-time• link-time• load-time• …

• Different binding times may be used concurrently in a SPL

SW Build

Agenda

•Introduction•Product Line basics•Software Build•Organization•Profits•Summary

Organization

Organizational changes when adopting software product lines The three essentialls

Source: www.sei.cmu.edu

Organization

Organization for and ordinary production without software product lines

Source: www.biglever.com

Organization

Organization and production with an software product line

Source: www.biglever.com

Organization

Initiation: strategies, challenges and risks

Source: www.sei.cmu.edu

Organization

Initiation: strategies, challenges and risks

• Strategies• Find business value• Priorities the work• Establish firmly the interest for the Software

Product Line• Challenges

• Getting everyone onboard• Gain the right competence for managing an

software product line• Design & Architecture• Process & Methodology• Management

Organization

• Risks• The workflow doesn't support the product line vision• Shortcuts undermine the software product line vision• To long leadtime to establish the product line

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•Introduction•Product Line basics•Software Build•Organization•Profits•Summary

Profits

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Lightweight software product lines

• minimize differences between single-system and product line engineering in order to minimize impact on:

• organization• processes• tools• infrastructure

• utilize an incremental adoption strategy• Example: Develop a reference architecture concurrently with

the production of the present product.• Use off-the-shelf software product line tools and technology• minimize the need for complex and costly merging

Profits

Agenda

•Introduction•Product Line basics•Software Build•Organization•Profits•Summary

Summary

Shorter time to marketQuality improvementIncreased productivity …

Conclusions – Introducing and using product line approach

• Achieve new business goals• Efficiency improvements• Cost reduction

• Reuse & Re-enter• Requirements• Design models• Source code• Test cases

• Increase quality in our products

• More fun at work!

Summary

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