Editing History of software engineering (section)

==== Software product lines ====
[[product family engineering|Software product lines, aka product family engineering]], is a systematic way to produce ''families'' of software systems, instead of creating a succession of completely individual products. This method emphasizes extensive, systematic, formal [[code reuse]], to try to industrialize the software development process.

The Future of Software Engineering conference (FOSE), held at ICSE 2000, documented the state of the art of SE in 2000 and listed many problems to be solved over the next decade. The FOSE tracks at the  ICSE 2000 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ul.ie/%7Eicse2000/|title=ICSE2000: Call for Participation|work=ul.ie}}</ref> and the ICSE 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/icse07/|title=ICSE 2007: Home|work=ucl.ac.uk}}</ref> conferences also help identify the state of the art in software engineering.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}