A product derivation framework for software product families

From our experience with several organizations that employ software product families, we have learned that deriving individual products from shared software artifacts is a time-consuming and expensive activity. In the research community, product derivation methodologies are rather scarce, however. By studying product derivation, we believe we will be better able to provide and validate industrially practicable solutions for application engineering. In this paper, we present a framework of terminology and concepts regarding product derivation that serves as basis for further discussion. We exemplify this framework with two industrial case studies, i.e. Thales Nederland B.V. and Robert Bosch GmbH