BigLever's Unified SPL Engineering Framework

BigLever Software provides the industry's only unified software product line engineering framework for the integration of tools, assets and processes across the full system and software development lifecycle. The Gears framework offers a simple and elegant integrated software product line (SPL) solution – for requirements engineers, architects, modelers, developers, build engineers, document writers, configuration managers, test engineers and project managers.

With the Gears framework, product line development organizations have a common set of SPL concepts and constructs for all tools and assets, which allows development processes to flow cleanly from one stage to another across the lifecycle:

• A single feature model that can uniformly express the full product line feature diversity for all assets in all stages of the system and software development lifecycle
• A single variation point mechanism that can be uniformly applied to all tools and their associated assets in all stages of the system and software development lifecycle, including tools and assets for requirements management, model-driven development, source code development, test case development, configuration management, build management, change management and document development
• A single, automated product configurator that uniformly assembles and configures assets from each stage of the development lifecycle to automatically produce all of the software assets and products in a product line, with the push of a single button.

The Gears SPL framework enables you to develop and evolve your product line portfolio, smoothly and efficiently, through each lifecycle stage – from requirements to design, development and testing. One consolidated collection of software assets. One consolidated mechanism for portfolio variation. One consolidated system for producing all products in a product line portfolio.

For more information on this innovative new SPL framework, see BigLever's white paper The Unified Software Product Line Engineering Framework