Transforming Legacy Systems into Software Product Lines

Often organizations face the problem that after a while their software system is deployed in several variants and the need arises to migrate to systematic variability and variant management using a software product line approach. In practice most organisations can not afford to start a software product line development from scratch and therefore have to use as much existing software assets as possible. Discussion of (successful) transition techniques thus helps those organisations to decide for adoption of a software product line approach. Since the software product line development is still in a phase were widespread use has not been achieved the tutorial tries to help attendees to increase the number of SPL in the industry.