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Variability management is the central part of software product line engineering. Due to the separation of domain and application engineering, product line requirements engineering encounters several collaboration problems during variability management. These collaboration problems have an additional layer of complexity, in case, product line organizations are geographically distributed. To address the collaboration problems, we propose a new methodology called issue-based variability management, which is based on the extension of variability management using rationale management. In particular, variability meta-model is viewed as a part of rhetorical rationale model. The methodology is explained and evaluated based on a combination of orthogonal variability model (OVM) and a rationale management approach based on questions, options and criteria (QOC).
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I am grateful to Bernd Bruegge, Allen Dutoit and Guenter Boeckle for their support in my research work. Further, my heartily acknowledgements and dedications to my family members mother, Kumari; father, Uma; wife Padmini and sister Padmaja.
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Thurimella, A.K. (2010). Collaborative Product Line Requirements Engineering Using Rationale. In: MistrÃk, I., Grundy, J., Hoek, A., Whitehead, J. (eds) Collaborative Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10294-3_18
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