A New Model of ISEE Based on Product Line

Borrowed ideas from the production process and management system of the modern manufacturing industry auto-assembly line, a new model of integrated software engineering environment based on product line is proposed and discussed. In this new model, the product line assets components are acted as standard parts supplied with the components bus of the product line development environment. The development environment above the bus will support the assembly line production of software products, and the parts under the bus will be traditional general purpose software development environment that supports the source code and documents development of the product line core asset components. Comparing with the current existing product line development environment models, the implementation of this new model development environment and its ability may be completely realize the automated production of software products, and similar to the assembly line production methods and management system of current manufacturing. Thus, this new model will be an ideal software development environment model for realizing the automated production of software product line.

I. Introduction

In recent years, with the gradual mature and application of the new techniques such as software architecture, software components, software large granularity reuse etc., software engineering method based on product line have aroused broad attention of software engineering filed and already become the hot spot and priority of the current studies in software engineering field. The core of software product line studies is to apply the techniques of software architecture, software components, software large granularity reuse and realize the industrialization and automatic production of mass custom-made software products in a specific field, which is similar to product line automatic production modes of modern manufacturing industry products (such as cars, TVs etc.). This is the ideal software production mode pursued for 40 years of software engineering development, which has the very important effect on the formation and development of modern software estate, and will produce the gigantic society and economic effect. [1]–[3]