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Tracing variations in software product families

Published: 01 December 2007 Publication History

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When one size doesn't fit all, what type of knowledge best helps manage variability in product family engineering?

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 50, Issue 12
December 2007
92 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1323688
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Published: 01 December 2007
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