Similarity management of 'cloned and owned' variants
Thomas Schmorleiz, Ralf Lämmel · 2016
The 'clone and own' approach to software product lines assumes that variants are created by cloning and evolve more or less independently afterwards. In this paper, we describe a process to manage similarity of such 'cloned and owned' variants along the timeline. The process uses annotations for recording developer intentions and it leverages automatic change propagation. We describe a case study where we manage similarity for clowned-and-owned Haskell-based variants of a simple human-resources management system.