Managing Variability in Software Product Lines

IEEE Software

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Babar, Muhammad Ali ^a   Chen, Lianping ^b   Shull, Forrest ^c  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c Fraunhofer USA Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Evidence based software engineering; Software engineering; Software product lines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LIFE CYCLE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EVIDENCE BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERING(SPLE); VARIABILITY MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77951681441     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2010.77     Document Type: Article

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