BigLever Gears Software

BigLever Software GearsTM, an industry-standard software product line solution,
provides a lifecycle framework that allows you to engineer your product line
portfolio as a single system rather than a multitude of products. With this
innovative single system capability, you can develop, evolve and manage your
product line, smoothly and efficiently, through each
lifecycle stage from requirements, to design and
development, to testing. Gears enables you to create a
software production line comprised of three elements:
Software Assets are configurable software artifacts
such as source code, requirements, models and test
cases engineered to be reused across the portfolio.
Product Feature Profiles model each product in your
portfolio in terms of optional and varying feature
choices specified for the product line.
The Gears Configurator automatically assembles and
configures software assets, guided by product feature
profiles, to produce the products in your SPL portfolio.
Manufacturers have long employed analogous engineering techniques to produce
a product line portfolio, using a single factory that assembles and configures parts
designed to be reused across the product line. For example, auto manufacturers
create unique variations of a car model using a single pool of carefully architected
parts and a production facility designed to configure and assemble those parts.
The powerful, though subtle, essence of this approach for manufacturing and for
software is the focus on the single system rather than the many products. Once
the production line is established, products are automatically instantiated rather
than manually created. This consolidated system enables you to leverage order-ofmagnitude
improvements in time-to-market, development cost, portfolio scalability
and product quality for an overwhelming strategic business advantage.
BigLever Gears Software Product Line
Engineering Tool and Lifecycle Framework
Product Overview
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BigLever Software GearsTM, an industry-standard software product line solution,