Lectures on advanced topics like product-line reengineering

[ekuiter]

Currently, the lecture series mostly assumes neat and tidy proactive development. To reflect the wider product-line literature and prepare students for real systems, an additional lecture on the following topics would IMO be interesting in the long term (and separate to the evolution and maintenance lecture):

1. 20min block: when is the migration to a product line warranted? -> : clone-and own versus platform engineering, cost estimation, scoping
2. 20min block: how to extract/migrate to a product line? -> reengineering, feature identification/location, training
3. 20min block: ??? (maybe discuss industrial case studies? e.g., one success and one failure story?)

(inspired by Krüger 2021)

This could be an optional thirteenth lecture. IMO, it would also be possible to make the sixth lecture optional (omit (micro-)services and merge frameworks/components into lecture two or seven, as components can be considered an architecture-level instantiation of the adapter/bridge pattern).

[tthuem]

An additional lecture sounds reasonable.

[ekuiter]

Maybe we can collect other underrepresented topics here as well.

For example, a lecture on sustainability ("sustainable/green product lines") might be interesting in the long term, covering the following topics:

• dimensions of (social, ecological, economical) sustainability in software engineering
• scoping, variability reduction in product lines
• energy (or general resource) efficiency (optimization/prediction, attributed feature models)

I guess these topics will only get more important in the future, and universities usually appreciate if lectures cover a sustainability perspective.

Potential starting point: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smr.1853