The shared software that runs on every derivative: drivers, hardware abstraction, operating system support, middleware and libraries, built from one code base and configured per derivative.
Source Work product in the Platform and derivative products lifecycle
The stack is where most derivative effort is saved or lost. One configured code base means a fix or feature reaches every product, and its tests run across the platform's configurations rather than in each derivative separately.
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