TY - CHAP A1 - Schmid, Klaus A1 - John, Isabel A1 - Kolb, Ronny A1 - Meier, Gerald T1 - Introducing the PuLSE approach to an embedded system population at Testo AG T2 - 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2005. ICSE 2005 N2 - Over the last few years, product line engineering has become a major theme in software engineering research, and is increasingly becoming a central topic of software engineering practice in the embedded domain. Migrating towards a product line approach is not an easy feat. It is even less so, if it is done under tight technology constraints in an embedded environment. It becomes even more difficult if the transition directly aims at integrating two product families into a single product population. In this paper, we discuss our experiences with a project where we successfully dealt with these difficulties and achieved a successful product line transition. In our paper, we strongly emphasize the role of technology transfer, as many facets of product line know-how had to be transferred to guarantee a complete transition to product line engineering. From the experiences of this project many lessons learned can be deduced, which can be transferred to different environments. KW - Embedded system KW - System testing KW - Software testing KW - Software engineering KW - Pulse measurements KW - Software reusability KW - Technology transfer KW - Software systems KW - Permission KW - Software development management KW - Testo AG KW - Production Line KW - Product Development KW - Measurement Instruments KW - Decision Variables KW - Model Domain KW - Domain Experts KW - Decision Model KW - Future Production KW - Level Of Implementation KW - Technical Success KW - Unified Modeling Language KW - General Components KW - Software Product KW - Development Of Architecture KW - Common Architecture KW - Software Architecture KW - Conceptual View KW - Reference Architecture Y1 - 2005 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2005.1553600 SN - 0270-5257 SN - 1558-1225 SP - 544 EP - 552 PB - IEEE ER -