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BigLever Ratchets Up Gears Framework


By Jeff Feinman
December 5, 2007 — 
BigLever Software has brought out version 5.4 of Gears, adding APIs for integrating development tools to its automatic product configuration tool.

Gears 5.4, released in late November, offers extended framework APIs for integrating development tools that use internal data models and databases. Gears uses the production line approach with a customer’s software portfolio, using feature profiles and blocks of software in a fashion similar to the way an automobile factory can build numerous variations on a design.

The release also has an expansion of built-in text transformations to ease migration from source code used in legacy software assets and programming language-specific block constructs to enable conversion of ad hoc source code block conventions into Gears variation points.

“If you think of runtime blocks, where you might have configuration files that have certain settings, and then your source code has blocks being controlled in ad hoc ways, what we’re doing is providing these language-specific blocks to replace runtime conditionals,” said Charles Krueger, CEO of BigLever, speaking of the block constructs.

The framework provided by Gears allows the software production line to flow smoothly by eliminating silos that might occur if companies were to employ product line methods at individual stages of the life cycle, Krueger said.

“As organizations mature in their understanding of software product line engineering, the issue of an integrated life cycle becomes increasingly important,” he said. “The product line problem cannot be solved at any one stage. To be effective, a software product line approach must harmonize the entire life cycle end-to-end.”


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