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An increasing number of studies has demonstrated improvements in product quality, and time-to-market reductions when Software Product Line (SPL) engineering is introduced. However, despite the amount of successful stories about the use of SPL engineering, there is a lack of guidelines to support its adoption, especially to small-sized software organizations.

The aim of this study is to investigate SPL adoption in small organizations and to improve the generalization of evidence through the use of a multi-method approach.

This paper reports on a multi-method study, where results from a mapping study, industrial case study and also expert opinion survey were considered to identify a set of findings.

The study provides a better understanding of SPL adoption in the context of small to medium-sized organizations, by documenting evidence observed during the transition from single …