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Commonality Analysis: A Systematic Process for Defining Families

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Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families (ARES 1998)

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The success of family-oriented software development processes depends on how well software engineers can predict the family members that will be needed. Commonality analysis is an analytical technique for deciding what the members of a family should be. It is in use at Lucent Technologies as part of a domain engineering process known as family-oriented abstraction, specification, and translation (FAST). Lucent software developers have performed commonality analyses on more than 20 families; results have been sufficiently encouraging that the analysis process is rapidly undergoing institutionalization.

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  1. Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, 1000 E. Warrenville Rd., Naperville, IL, 60566

    David M. Weiss

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    Frank van der Linden

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Weiss, D.M. (1998). Commonality Analysis: A Systematic Process for Defining Families. In: van der Linden, F. (eds) Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families. ARES 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1429. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-68383-6_30

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