Shahid Mujtaba

AB Volvo · Volvo Trucks

Custom-developed adaptations of software products are increasingly important to meet different and changing customer needs and heterogeneous system environments. Efficient software customization processes with short lead times are thus a priority for companies to stay competitive. The purpose of this case study is to identify waste-related problems...

BACKGROUND: A software engineering systematic map is a defined method to build a classification scheme and structure a software engineering field of interest. The analysis of results focuses on frequencies of publications for categories within the scheme. Thereby, the coverage of the research field can be determined. Different facets of the scheme...

Software product line engineering (SPLE) enables soft-ware mass customization and allows development costs to be cut, lead delivery times to be reduced and throughput to be optimized. The concept of variability is central in SPLE methodologies and for success when adopting a software product line approach. Even though much research has been done on...

In practice companies face situations where many customization requests could not be foreseen. Thus, companies need to be able to rapidly develop customizations even after release. The objective of this study is to understand how industry handles the customization challenge with a focus on the strategy and processes used. Two cases have been studie...