variants Product Line & Variants Management

Master product line engineering with multiple variants using codebeamer

Manage product commonality and variability when developing multiple product variants. Optimize the reuse of Application Lifecycle Management artifacts, avoid redundant work, and reduce the development costs of complex product lines.

Reuse project configurations and workflows to leverage mature processes across variants management. Cut costs by driving the reuse of requirements and the testing artifacts that verify them. Simplify and accelerate the development, management, and verification of products that share common elements.

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Why use codebeamer for Variants Management?

Slash product line engineering costs

Avoid redundant work, and reduce the development costs of multiple product variants. Efficiently manage product commonality and variability.

Reuse to accelerate product verification

Unlock efficiencies by reusing existing artifacts, processes, and project configurations. Shorten release cycles, and reduce the time and effort costs of verifying product variants.

Multiple development streams

Manage multiple parallel development branches. Gain full control over merged changes to maintain high product quality.

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Features of codebeamer Product Line & Variants Management

Multi-stream product line management

Minimize redundant work, and leverage existing processes to simplify variants management. Efficiently manage the parallel development streams of multiple product variations. Manage commonalities in your product line to realize efficiencies, and ensure the reuse of artifacts and product components across development streams. Guarantee transparent and accurate change management upstream and downstream. Maintain a master development trunk, and easily create new product variants branching off. Use project templates and merge project configurations to reuse settings, processes, and assets across projects.

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Requirements branching, comparison, merging, and baselining

Stay in control of commonalities and variations in your product line. Use multi-layered branching to create and manage parallel development streams. Maintain relationships between branches and versioned artifacts, and be notified of changes on related branches. Link versioned artifacts to other versioned work items. Compare product variations any time. Merge branches upon request in a fully controlled manner by propagating selected changes only.

Create milestones for better visibility of progress. Record comprehensive baselines of your products, compare baselines any time, and reduce verification time by only re-verifying changed items.

Reuse projects and lifecycle artifacts

Avoid rework, and cut the time and costs of product verification. Save lifecycle work items to libraries and reuse them across product variants. Reuse groups of requirements together with the test cases that verify them, maintaining traceable relationships. Leverage process maturity across your product line by reusing both project configurations and workflows.

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