The 2nd XP Workshop on Agile Product Line Engineering
Yaser Ghanam
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Call for Papers
The Second XP Workshop on Agile Product Line Engineering
A special issue journal is arranged for this workshop
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Please circulate this CFP within your professional networks and mailing lists.
- Web Link (This page): http://ase.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/index.php/APLE/WSCFP
- PDF Version: APLE Workshop CFP
Organizers:
- Yaser Ghanam (contact), University of Calgary
- Kendra Cooper, University of Texas at Dallas
- Frank Maurer, University of Calgary
Email: yghanam at gmail dot com
Goal:
To bring together people who are using or want to use agile approaches in the development of software product lines (SPLs). We plan to discuss the similar goals but different philosophies of agile and SPL techniques, and explore to what degree they can/should be integrated, and how this integration could/should happen.
Topics:
- Are some activities of SPL engineering more amenable to agility than others (e.g. domain engineering, application engineering, variability management)?
- How can agile organizations manage reusing software artifacts across team boundaries?
- Future versus current needs of stakeholders.
- Working software versus comprehensive documentation.
- How can agile approaches be used to overcome the risk of separating the development of core assets from current business needs?
- How different are agile tools from those that support more traditional approaches? What tools are needed to enable reuse and variability management in agile contexts?
- How do the roles of chief architects and testers in SPLs change when using agile methods?
Key Dates:
- Submission Due : 15 April 2010
- Acceptance notification : 29 April 2010
- Workshop : 1 June 2010
Contributions:
Submissions should be up to 4 pages in LNCS format under one of these categories:
- Research papers: original research on combining agile methods and SPLs. This can be either finished work or research in progress with preliminary results.
- Experience reports: successful or unsuccessful attempts to integrate agile methods and SPLs. This is a great chance for people from industry to share their experiences and learned lessons.
- Position papers: thoughts and views about combining the two practices. This can also include the author’s insight on current and future trends, or suggestions of best practices empowered by previous experiences.
Authors of the best accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in a special issue of the “Software: Practice and Experience” journal.
Regardless of the outcome of your submission to the workshop, submitting a paper is a good chance for you to get your work reviewed so that you may consider submitting a revised and extended version to the journal.
Please send your paper via email in a PDF format to the organizers of the workshop (yghanam at gmail dot com).
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Yaser Ghanam, University of Calgary