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BigLever Software Gears is the industry-leading software product line engineering tool and framework that enables you to develop and evolve your product line portfolio, smoothly and efficiently, through each lifecycle stage – from requirements to design, development and testing.

Gears Software Production Line
Gears is used to create a software production line capable of producing all of the products in a software product line portfolio. A Gears software production line comprises three key elements:

Software Assets are configurable software artifacts – such as source code, requirements, and test cases – engineered to be reused across the product line.

Product Feature Profiles model each product in the portfolio in terms of optional and varying feature choices specified for the product line.

The Gears Configurator automatically assembles and configures the software assets, guided by the product feature profiles, to produce the products in the portfolio.

Consolidate, Simplify, Leverage: Engineer Your Portfolio as a Single System
Manufacturers of hard goods have long employed analogous engineering methods to create a product line portfolio using a common factory that assembles and configures parts carefully architected to be reused across the product line. The powerful, though subtle, essence of this approach – for manufacturing and for software – is the focus on the single production system, rather than the many products. Once the production line is established, products are automatically instantiated rather than manually created. Organizations are able to leverage the order of magnitude improvements in time-to-market, development cost, portfolio scalability and product quality for overwhelming strategic business advantage.

For more information, see Product Line Engineering Solutions for Systems and Software.