relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/1451/ title: Using open source components in software product lines - An exploratory study creator: Fazal-E-Amin creator: Mahmood, A.K. creator: Oxley, A. description: The software engineering community has been continuously discussing the concepts of software reuse since the community's inception. The emergence of a reuse-intense development methodology, i.e. software product lines (SPLs), and the advances in open source software (OSS) have made reuse a current research topic. There are several studies available which explore the different dimensions of software reuse. Some of these have highlighted the factors affecting the reusability of software components in a component based development environment but use of OSS in SPLs is still an area to be explored. This paper reports on the issues relevant to OSS based SPL development, including the use of OSS in SPLs, the role of OSS in promoting reuse, current reuse practices, and challenges that OSS brings about. This paper describes the procedures carried out in conducting an interview based exploratory study and gives the results of the study. © 2011 IEEE. date: 2011 type: Conference or Workshop Item type: PeerReviewed identifier: Fazal-E-Amin and Mahmood, A.K. and Oxley, A. (2011) Using open source components in software product lines - An exploratory study. In: UNSPECIFIED. relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-83155185404&doi=10.1109%2fICOS.2011.6079270&partnerID=40&md5=e90de69b5f328542518ea5ab35710565 relation: 10.1109/ICOS.2011.6079270 identifier: 10.1109/ICOS.2011.6079270