Identifying and exploiting the similarities between rationale management and variability management

Proceedings - 12th International Software Product Line Conference, SPLC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 99-108

  Thurimella, Anil Kumar ^a   Bruegge, Bernd ^b   Creighton, Oliver ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE);

CASE-STUDIES; ISSUE- BASED VARIABILITIES; MANAGEMENT IS; MODELING VARIABILITY; PRODUCT LINE REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; PRODUCT-LINES; VARIABILITY MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 55049109175     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPLC.2008.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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