Handling large-scale software variability is still a challenge for many organizations. After
decades of research on variability management concepts, many industrial organizations …

Abstract Software Product Lines (SPLs) are families of systems that share common assets
allowing a disciplined reuse. Rarely SPLs start from scratch, instead they usually start from a …

Abstract Context: The adoption of Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) is usually only
based on its theoretical benefits instead of empirical evidences. In fact, there is no work that …

Building Software Product Lines (SPLs) from existing artefacts is known as the extractive
approach for SPL adoption. The traditional case is that variants are created with ad-hoc …

Fast changing hardware and software technologies in addition to larger and more
specialized customer bases demand software tailored to meet very diverse requirements …

The evolution of variant-rich systems is a challenging task. To support developers, the
research community has proposed a range of different techniques over the last decades …

A common and simple way to create custom product variants is to copy and adapt existing
software (aka the clone-and-own approach). Clone-and-own promises low initial costs for …

We address the problem of automating 1) the analysis of existing similar model variants and
2) migrating them into a software product line. Our approach, named MoVaPL, considers the …

Software Product Line (SPL) engineering has emerged to provide the means to efficiently
model, produce, and maintain multiple similar software variants, exploiting their common …

Software companies commonly develop and maintain variants of systems, with different
feature combinations for different customers. Thus, they must cope with variability in space …