If anybody has done evaluation of software product line tools, can share his experience with me. If you have not

I took my PhD program comprehensive exam part B yesterday. This is an oral exam. My committee members asked my questions about their fields of interests. I did good. They also asked me some basic idea about my field of interest, which is SPLs. But for one question, I did not answer very well. This question is: Why do we want to apply SPLs? Why do we need visualization techniques in SPLs?
I always don't know how to answer this kind of questions, any suggestion?

I should have pointed out at PPL 2009 that we are assembling a special issue of IEEE Software on industrial successes of software product lines. The deadline is early November with about a week of flexibility. Short papers that present actual experiences would be very welcome.


John

Well, today was day 2 of the first edition of Practical Product Lines, and Mark Dalgarno told us that news about the 2010 edition will come in soon. Some would say that that is an indication of a succesful event. Well done, Mirjam, Danielle, Mark and Rene!



Today, we kicked off with a keynote by Dirk-Jan Swagerman of FEI Company. He started with an overview of FEIs business - electron microscopes. An interesting domain, and the explanation certainly woke up those who sleepwalked to… Continue

Practical Product Lines 2009 - Day 1



Yesterday was the first day of the first Practical Product Lines Conference. I was off for a bad start, my train got delayed, and then it got delayed even more because a lady decided to get stuck between the doors of a train that was supposed to leave before mine. She was unharmed in the end, but I got another 10 minute delay out of it.



So, I arrived about 20 minutes late in Jan Bosch' keynote, just in time to here him explain how… Continue