Feature location is the activity of identifying an initial location in the source code that
implements functionality in a software system. Many feature location techniques have been …

Feature location techniques aim at locating software artifacts that implement a specific
program functionality, aka a feature. These techniques support developers during various …

Over the last decades, the adoption of Software Product Line (SPL) engineering for
supporting software reuse has increased. An SPL can be extracted from one single product …

Software product lines (SPLs) are known for improving productivity and reducing time-to-
market through the systematic reuse of assets. SPLs are adopted mainly by re-engineering …

Tracing requirements to their implementation is crucial to all stakeholders of a software
development process. When managing software variability, requirements are typically …

Features are high-level, domain-specific abstractions over implementation artifacts.
Developers use them to communicate and reason about a system, in order to maintain and …

The size of Android applications is getting larger to fulfill the requirements of various users.
However, not all the features of the applications are needed and desired by a specific user …

Tracing features to software artifacts is a crucial yet challenging activity for developers of
variability-intensive software projects. Developers can provide feature traces either …

Light weight development processes like Agile have emerged in response to rapidly
changing market requirements. However such processes are inadequate for software in …

Companies often develop similar product variants that share a high degree of functionality
(ie, features) by copying and modifying code (the clone-and-own approach). In an industrial …