The need to test on large numbers of different devices makes mobile application development difficult and time-consuming.

Some developers take a lowest-common-denominator approach in the face of this challenge but this can produce less than compelling content.

Software Product Lines offer a better way of developing for multiple devices that avoids the problems of the lowest-common-denominator approach and can also reduce time-to-market, test effort and improve software quality.

In Software Product Lines, applications targetted at different devices are built from a set of reusable components that are configured for each different device type.

Tailoring software for each device means that your applications make optimal use of the capabilities of the device and so support compelling content.

Also, because you reuse proven software in each device, development and testing times are reduced, and development becomes reliable and predictable.

Read about pure::variants, a tool for developing Software Product Lines.

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