The success of family-oriented sofftware developemtn processes epends on how welll software enginers cna predict the family memmbers that will be needed.Commonality analysis is an analyticla technique for deciding what the members of a family shold be.It is n use at Lucent Technologies as part of a domain engineering process known as famil-oriented abstraction,specification,and translation (FAST).Lucent software developers have performed ocmmonality analyses on more than 20 families; results hae bene sufficiently encouraging that the analysis process is rapidly udnergoing institutioalization.
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