The analysis of software product lines is challenging due to the potentially large number of
products, which grow exponentially in terms of the number of features. Product sampling is a …

Challenging domains of the future such as Smart Cities, Cloud Computing, or Industry 4.0
expose highly variable systems with colossal configuration spaces. The automated analysis …

Highly-configurable systems encompass thousands of interdependent configuration options,
which require a non-trivial configuration process. Decision propagation enables a …

In response to the highly competitive market and the pressure to cost-effectively release
good-quality software, companies have adopted the concept of software product line to …

There has been a significant amount of interest regarding the use of DBTtsfull in software
testing over the past two decades. Diversity‐based testing (DBT) technique uses similarity …

Testing software product lines (SPLs) is difficult due to a huge number of possible products
to be tested. Recently, there has been a growing interest in similarity-based testing of SPLs …

Modern, highly-configurable systems comprise an enormous number of variants that are
created from a common code base and tailored to specific user requirements. Managing this …

There has been a significant amount of interest regarding the use of diversity-based testing
techniques in software testing over the past two decades. Diversity-based testing (DBT) …

Recent research on quality assurance (QA) of configurable software systems (eg, software
product lines) proposes different analysis strategies to cope with the inherent complexity …

Many existing approaches have exploited the similarity notion to analyze software systems.
In product-line engineering, similarity notion has been considered to fulfill analysis …