Abstract CONTEXT. Software Product Lines (SPLs) aim to support the development of a
whole family of software products through systematic reuse of shared assets. As SPLs …

Many programs can be configured through dynamic and/or static selection of configuration
variables. A software product line (SPL), for example, specifies a family of programs where …

A software product line (SPL) represents a family of products in a given application domain.
Each SPL is constructed to provide for the derivation of new products by covering a wide …

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 …

Research on system and software product line engineering (SPLE) and the community
around it have been inspired by industrial applications. However, despite decades of …

Testing is a crucial activity of product-line engineering. Due to shared commonality, testing
each variant individually results in redundant testing processes. By adopting regression …

For highly configurable software systems, such as the Linux kernel, maintaining and
evolving variability information along changes to source code poses a major challenge …

Test suite augmentation techniques are used in regression testing to identify code elements
affected by changes and to generate test cases to cover those elements. Whereas methods …

Variation is central to today's software development. There are two fundamental dimensions
to variation: Variation in time refers to the fact that software exists in numerous revisions that …

Abstract Testing Highly Configurable Systems (HCSs) is a challenging task, especially in an
evolution scenario where features are added, changed, or removed, which hampers test …