Adapting Open Source Software for Establishing Product

One important activity in product line engineering is product line pro-duction planning, during which stakeholders of a product line deter-mine what and how product line assets are developed and used for product development. Moreover, decisions on which assets should be developed as in-house assets, purchased as COTS, or adapted from open source software (OSS) are made. In [1], we proposed a feature-based approach to identifying product line assets and determining their development strategies during product line production planning. The approach is an extension of [2], and a feature model [3], which captures commonality and variability informa-tion of a product line, is used as primary input to the strategy selection. The approach could provide asset developers with a way to identify core assets, and determine asset types (in-house, COTS, or OSS) with technical and business/management considerations