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 …

To keep pace with the increasing demand for custom-tailored software systems, companies
often apply a practice called clone-and-own, whereby a new variant of a software system is …

Abstract Context Software Product Lines (SPLs) are families of related products developed
for specific domains. SPLs commonly emerge from existing variants when their individual …

Software engineering faces the challenge of develo** and maintaining systems that are
highly variable in space (concurrent variations of the system at a single point in time) and …

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

Adopting Software Product Line (SPL) engineering principles demands a high up-front
investment. Bottom-Up Technologies for Reuse (BUT4Reuse) is a generic and extensible …

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

Software is often released in multiple variants to meet all customer requirements. While
software product lines address this need by advocating the development of an integrated …

Develo** and managing software variants is a key challenge in today's software
development. Due to conflicting requirements, software is developed in multiple variants to …

Automated production systems (aPS) are highly customized systems that consist of
hardware and software. Such aPS are controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC) …