An exploratory study of cloning in industrial software product lines

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 25-34

  Dubinsky, Yael ^a   Rubin, Julia ^a,b   Berger, Thorsten ^c,d   Duszynski, Slawomir ^e   Becker, Martin ^e   Czarnecki, Krzysztof ^f  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e Fraunhofer IESE ^*  (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cloned product variants; exploratory study; software product line

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE; PRODUCT VARIANTS; SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE; SOFTWARE REENGINEERING; SYSTEMATIC SOFTWARE REUSE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INDUSTRY; REENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CLONING;

EID: 84877261131     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2013.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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