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On the Importance of Product Line Scope

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Software Product-Family Engineering (PFE 2001)

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By now, and in this community, the benefits of and basic principles behind software product lines are well known: Order-of-magnitude improvements in cost, schedule, and quality, brought about by the strategic, planned reuse of core assets over a family of products.

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Clements, P.C. (2002). On the Importance of Product Line Scope. In: van der Linden, F. (eds) Software Product-Family Engineering. PFE 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47833-7_8

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