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Visualizing Software Variability

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Many of the expected benefits of software product line (SPL) engineering rely on an assumption that the additional up-front effort in domain engineering that establishes the product line produces a long-term benefit. The expectation is that deriving products from a product line during application engineering is more efficient than traditional single system development.

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  1. Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany

    Steffen Thiel

  2. Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

    Ciarán Cawley

  3. Lero-The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Goetz Botterweck

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  1. Rey Juan Carlos University, c/ Tulipán s/n, Madrid, 28933, Spain

    Rafael Capilla

  2. Chalmers University of Technology, Matildehemsvägen 6, Gothenburg, 412 96, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

  3. and Technology, Pohang University of Science, San 31, Hyoja-Dong, Nam-Gu, Pohang, 790-784, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Kyo-Chul Kang

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Thiel, S., Cawley, C., Botterweck, G. (2013). Visualizing Software Variability. In: Capilla, R., Bosch, J., Kang, KC. (eds) Systems and Software Variability Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36583-6_7

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