Designing Software Product Lines with UML : From Use Cases to Pattern-Based Software Architectures (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

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Summary: UML for software products, maybe lines too?
Review: It's still unclear to me how the software product lines in this book are distinguished simply from the products themselves. There is more emphasis on reuse and this appears to be the key distinguishing characteristic. But even with the book just focusing on a singly product this is a valuable work showing the use of techniques of Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML. The book is a solid piece of work (both physically and in content), though there is a bias towards illustrations as opposed to explanatory text. Software architects should evaluate the book in person. Front line software engineers probably won't find much they can apply to their work.

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Summary: Good Resource for Architecting Software Product Lines
Review: This book brings together a good range of concepts for understanding software product lines and provides an organized method for developing product lines using object-oriented techniques with the UML. The text also includes a good selection of examples and case studies to illustrate the product line approach. I found this book to be well-balanced with respect to the needs of both experienced and novice software engineers.

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Summary: Good Text for Reusable Software Architecture
Review: This book is a good text for software product lines. The approach to PLUS is well described with reasonable examples represented using UML notation, which make readers understand clearly the theoretical background of PLUS. This book can be used for a graduate course developing Reusable Software Architecture in terms of software product lines. In particular, it illustrates very well how reusable software architecture is specified from product line multiple-view models.