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Product Line Architecture: how to scale up eXtreme Programming?
Tuesday 18th March 2003 16:00 Brian Spratt Room
     
Alan C. Wills
University of Kent at Canterbury 		  Abstract
     

Agile processes (like eXtreme Programming, XP) and Software Product Line Architecture (PLA) have both shown great potential to make a real difference to the costs and reliability of software engineering.

XP follows an iterative process with rigorous testing and minimal thought for future developments in needs. PLA assumes you're going to build a whole family of end-products from a kit of components. XP is known to work for small projects; PLA is directed at huge ones. Can these two approaches be used together, to get mutual benefit?

This seminar explores the theory that PLA is the answer to scaling XP; and XP is the best way to develop components.

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Alan Cameron Wills is a methods consultant, and founder of Trireme International Ltd. He is co-author of the Catalysis approach to component-based development. More recently, he has started a software development company (with John Daniels), Fastnloose Ltd. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Kent.


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