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|title=Building a Requirements Engineering Methodology for Software Product Lines
|pdfUrl=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-662/paper_8.pdf
|volume=Vol-662
|dblpUrl=https://dblp.org/rec/conf/eis/HuysegomsSD10
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==Building a Requirements Engineering Methodology for Software Product Lines==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-662/paper_8.pdf
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