Abstract Context: Software Product Lines (SPL) evolve when there are changes in the
requirements, product structure or the technology being used. Different approaches have …

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

The notion of features is commonly used to describe the functional and non-functional
characteristics of a system. In software product line engineering, features often become the …

Feature models are arguably one of the most intuitive and successful notations for modeling
the features of a variant-rich software system. Feature models help developers to keep an …

Feature modeling is widely used to systematically model features of variant-rich software
systems and their dependencies. By translating feature models into propositional formulas …

Highly configurable systems allow users to tailor software to specific needs. Valid
combinations of configuration options are often restricted by intricate constraints. Describing …

Process models for software product-line engineering focus on proactive adoption scenarios-
--that is, building product-line platforms from scratch. They comprise the two phases domain …

Code cloning has been reported both on small (code fragments) and large (entire projects)
scale. Cloning-in-the-large, or forking, is gaining ground as a reuse mechanism thanks to …

Abstract Version control systems are an integral part of today's software engineering. They
facilitate the collaborative management of revisions (sequential versions) and variants …

Locating features is one of the most common software development activities. It is typically
done during maintenance and evolution, when developers need to identify the exact places …