Workshop on Collaborative Software Product Line Engineering

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is a promising process for software development that has started to mature in the past ten years. Early indications are that it provides an improvement in productivity of about 3 to 1 over the software production and sustainment cycle of systems [2]. Although SPLE has been effective for early adopters, we still need to continue research to provide evidence of the effectiveness of SPLE, to find ways to improve SPLE technology and processes, and to establish strategies, methods, and capabilities for teaching SPLE and for training practitioners. Collaborative SPLE provides opportunities and challenges for researchers, educators and practitioners. Our goal is to create a Laboratory for Collaborative Software Product Line Engineering (LCSPLE) with worldwide membership that is willing and able to work towards making SPLE a mature technology that is widely used, that is, moving it from an early adopter technology to a majority technology, used in industry and taught in the universities. This workshop will start the process of creating the LCSPLE by bringing together, for the first time, a group of people who share its goal.