Feature models and associated feature diagrams allow modeling and visualizing the
constraints leading to the valid products of a product line. In terms of their expressiveness …

Model driven development (MDD) is an emerging paradigm for software construction that
uses models to specify programs, and model transformations to synthesize executables …

Two programming paradigms are gaining attention in the overlap** fields of software
product lines (SPLs) and incremental software development (ISD). Feature-oriented …

The C preprocessor has received strong criticism in academia, among others regarding
separation of concerns, error proneness, and code obfuscation, but is widely used in …

The C preprocessor is used in many C projects to support variability and portability.
However, researchers and practitioners criticize the C preprocessor because of its negative …

To safely evolve a software product line, it is important to have a notion of product line
refinement that assures behavior preservation of the original product line products. So in this …

Bedingte Kompilierung ist ein einfaches und häufig benutztes Mittel zur Implementierung
von Variabilität in Softwareproduktlinien, welches aber aufgrund negativer Auswirkungen …

The adoption of a product line strategy can bring significant productivity and time to market
improvements. However, evolving a product line is risky because it might impact many …

In 2008 the predecessor of this book, entitled “Software Evolution”[592] was published by
Springer, presenting the research results of a number of researchers working on different …

Superimposition is a composition technique that has been applied successfully in several
areas of software development. In order to unify several languages and tools that rely on …