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A Software Product Line  (SPL) can be defined as “a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way“.

The keys to developing and exploiting the value of an SPL are

• specifying the interfaces and protocols between app components and infrastructure components
• the granularity of the software components: 10-20K lines of code,
• the product instantiation and test process,
• the disciplined management of changes to the app and infrastructure components.
• managing obsolescence of open source components/libs used in the architecture
• keeping the requirements and design data in synch with the code base

Any others?