Second international software product lines young researchers workshop (SPLYR). Introduction: Family Planning beyond the Software: the second sibling

Geppet B., John I., Lami G.

D.2.13 Reusable Software  Software product lines 

Different to many other software engineering techniques, product-line engi-neering arose from practical experience in industry. But as with every successful technique product line-engineering can also be considered only a real standard approach when it is not only applied in practice but also widely researched and especially taught in academia. Practice and academia are the two sides of the same coin. While industry sets the requirements, academia prepares the practi-tioners of tomorrow. The peculiarity of the SPLYR workshop is that it is specifi-cally addressed to young researchers, in particular Ph.D. students, having origi-nal ideas and initiatives in the product line field. The first SPLYR workshop was successfully held at SPLC 2004 in Boston, the second SPLYR workshop is now part of SPLC Europe 2005. Different from the standard procedure of most workshops, we have no blind peer reviews at SPLYR. Each student was assigned to the product line expert who reviewed the proposal and discussed pros and cons of the work with the student. We would like to thank Len Bass, Stuart Faulk, Stefania Gnesi and Robyn Lutz for review-ing the proposals and for the effort they spent. We selected four proposals for presentation at the workshop. The topics range from organizational issues to enterprise applications, variability management and evolution. For many of the students this is the first time to present their work to an inter-national audience. The workshop aims at providing the right platform for this and for discussing the presented work among each other and with experts in the field. We hope that with this workshop each of the students will get valu-able feedback for the further development of the work.