BigLever Software at 9th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC-Europe 2005)

Rennes, France -- September 26-29. As a leading provider of software product line solutions, BigLever Software is playing an instrumental role in SPLC 2005, with representation in the following events.

Tutorial: New Methods Behind the New Generation of Software Product Line Success Stories, Charles W. Krueger, BigLever Software (Presenter), Monday, September 26, 9:00-12:30. A new generation of software product line successes are emerging, offering the expected 10x improvements, but with 100x less time and effort.

Invited Experiences, Case Study: Incremental Return on Incremental Investment: Engenio's Transition to Software Product Line Practice, William A. Hetrick (Engenio), Charles W. Krueger (BigLever Software), Joseph G. Moore (Engenio), Wednesday, September 28, 11:00-12:30. Using the BigLever solution, Engenio made an incremental, non-disruptive transition to software product line practice -- avoiding the typical upfront burden of re-engineering, redesigning and re-structuring. As a result, Engenio has experienced a 300% increase in development capacity.

Tools Track: Scalable Software Product Line Development with BigLever Software Gears, Charles W. Krueger, BigLever Software (Presenter), Tuesday, September 27, 4:30-5:30. BigLever Software Gears is the software product line development tool at the center of two of the industry’s most recent and innovative software product line success stories. The Gears 5.0 release in September 2005 marks an important milestone in its support of highly scalable software product line solutions.

Panels: Charles W. Krueger, BigLever Software, Panels Chair

• Change is Good. You Go First. Charles W. Krueger (Moderator), Wednesday, September 28, 9:00-10:30. While there is ample evidence that, for many development organizations, a change to software product line practice would be good, there is a reluctance by these organizations to go first. This panel will explore how to ease SPL adoption.
• A Competition of Software Product Line Economic Models. Paul Clements (Moderator), Wednesday, September 28, 11:00-12:30. Proponents of different SPL economic models will be given a real-world scenario and asked to predict alternate outcomes.

Workshops: Charles W. Krueger, BigLever Software, Workshop Chair for:

• SPLiT 2005: 2nd International Workshop on Software Product Line Testing, Monday, September 26. Product-line testing is crucial to the successful establishment of PLE technology in an organization. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to address some of the fundamental challenges of testing in a PLE setting.
• Aspects and Software Product Lines: An Early Aspects Workshop, Monday, September 26. This workshop is the first step to launching a community-wide focused investigation on the application of aspects throughout the lifecycle to product line development.

See SPLC-2005 for more details on the conference. For more information on BigLever, e-mail info@biglever.com, call (512) 426-2227 or visit www.biglever.com.