Working-Sets are natural representations of a variant while developing a product line in Codebeamer. Those variants can be developed for customers based on the product line or just variants with a different feature set. A variant is created by reusing relevant parts of the product line in the variant, potentially in a parameterized form. Additional adjustments can be implemented in the variant, but it is essential to ensure those adjustments are merged back into the product line.

A variant in a Working-Set is created as a new Working-Set that only includes the relevant trackers. This Working-Set can be created based on baselines or another Working-Set to start from a well-defined version of the product-line. Once the Working-Set has been created, all items that are not relevant in the Working-Set are removed and parameters are expanded. It is possible to use Codebeamers built-in filtering and bulk-edit capabilities to implement a basic approach for filtering and parameter replacement, but it is recommended to integrate Codebeamerwith a dedicated variant management tool for a more sophisticated approach with a better usability.