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Challenges for Requirements Engineering and Management in Software Product Line Development

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2007)

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Development of software product lines is particularly complex, raising specific and advanced challenges for requirements engineering and management. This paper gives an overview of these challenges, as they were identified in three related investigations that involved several industrial software product line organizations.

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Birk, A., Heller, G. (2007). Challenges for Requirements Engineering and Management in Software Product Line Development. In: Sawyer, P., Paech, B., Heymans, P. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4542. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73031-6_22

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