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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The STX project (http://www2.it.lut.fi/
project/STX/), the Finnish Funding Agency for
Technology and Innovations (TEKES), the
companies involved in the project and the Graduate
School on Software Systems and Engineering
(SoSE) supported this study.
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