From integration to composition: On the impact of software product lines, global development and ecosystems

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.06.051 Byline: Jan Bosch (a), Petra Bosch-Sijtsema (b)(c) Keywords: Software product lines; Software ecosystems; Global development; Software integration; Software composition Abstract: Three trends accelerate the increase in complexity of large-scale software development, i.e. software product lines, global development and software ecosystems. For the case study companies we studied, these trends caused several problems, which are organized around architecture, process and organization, and the problems are related to the efficiency and effectiveness of software development as these companies used too integration-centric approaches. We present five approaches to software development, organized from integration-centric to composition-oriented and describe the areas of applicability. Author Affiliation: (a) Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA (b) Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (c) Visiting Scholar Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Article History: Received 8 November 2008; Revised 21 May 2009; Accepted 26 June 2009