Software industry has developed strongly towards becoming a product business in the recent years. Companies have increasing difficulties in managing all the delivered “old” product versions and the development of the “new” product versions efficiently at the same time. Software Configuration Management (SCM) provides some capable means for managing these problems, but it has also some limitatio...

Product documentation for manufacturing is subject to temporal change: Exchange of parts by successor models, shift from in-house production to external procurement, or assembly line reconfiguration are just a few examples. In this paper we show how DaimlerChrysler AG manages configuration for manufacturing of their Mercedes lines. Furthermore, we identify typical situations of change, their re...

This paper presents the view of product configuration taken by Tacton Systems AB. We first define the product configuration task in general. We then distinguish three types of configuration tasks, describe different interactivity requirements, and discuss three common types of configuration engines. Finally, Tacton Configurator is briefly described. Product Configuration In a configurable produ...

Most software product lines are first specified as an architecture, a high-level description of what the overall family system structure is to be like and from which individual product architectures can be generated. This structure, however, must be mapped onto implementation code stored in a Software Configuration Management system for it to be useful beyond the definitional phase of product l...