In the era of mobile devices and the Internet of things, software systems are ubiquitous. A
multitude of hardware specifics, fast development of applications, and the need of …

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

Sleep deprivation attacks are a form of denial of service attack whereby an attacker renders
a pervasive computing device inoperable by draining the battery more quickly than it would …

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 …

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 …

The notion of forking has changed with the rise of distributed version control systems and
social coding environments, like GitHub. Traditionally forking refers to splitting off an …

Features are commonly used to describe functional and nonfunctional aspects of software.
To effectively evolve and reuse features, their location in software assets has to be known …

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 …