Communicating the variability of a software-product family to customers

Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 113-131

  Halmans, Günter ^a   Pohl, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Product family; Requirements engineering; UML; Use cases; Variability

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

APPLICATION ENGINEERING; CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE; DOMAIN ENGINEERING; SHARED ASSETS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 2342565726     PISSN: 01783564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00450-004-0156-6     Document Type: Article

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