Share to manage, manage to share

Share to manage

• Factorize, and avoid duplication: reduce the amount of material to be managed.
• Get more (collaborative) effort to validation/testing: get fewer defects by ironing out the common ones.
• Consider multiple contexts of use: make the dependencies explicit.
• Improve identification: through objective criteria, get tool support.
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Manage to share

• Local (short-term) divergence, global (long-term) convergence.
• Multi-dimensional space: support for classifying the differences (different versions are exclusive of each other in a same software configuration)
• More in Divide and conquer