Bad smells are sub-optimal code structures that may represent problems needing attention.
We conduct an extensive literature review on bad smells relying on a large body of …

Abstract Context Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) is an emerging discipline that
focuses on the application of search-based optimization techniques to software engineering …

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 …

Autonomous robots combine skills to form increasingly complex behaviors, called missions.
While skills are often programmed at a relatively low abstraction level, their coordination is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Software reuse lowers development costs and improves the quality of software systems. Two
strategies are common: clone & own (copying and adapting a system) and platform-oriented …

Duplicated code or code clones are a kind of code smell that have both positive and
negative impacts on the development and maintenance of software systems. Software clone …