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A Personal History of Delta Modelling

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Delta modelling is a transformational approach to represent variability of software systems through change operations to transform one software variant to another variant realizing different functionality. The term delta for a container of those change operations was coined by Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter in early 2009. This article gives a personal account of the achievements in delta modelling since then by a collection of quotes from collaborators, students and friends.

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I would like to thank Christoph Seidl for his valuable comments on an earlier version of this work.

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Schaefer, I. (2018). A Personal History of Delta Modelling. In: Müller, P., Schaefer, I. (eds) Principled Software Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98047-8_15

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