Programming experience is an important confounding parameter in controlled experiments
regarding program comprehension. In literature, ways to measure or control programming …

Developers spend a substantial amount of their time with program comprehension. To
improve their comprehension and refresh their memory, developers need to communicate …

A software product line enables an organization to systematically reuse software features
that allow to derive customized variants from a common platform, promising reduced …

Most organizations start to reuse software by cloning complete systems and adapting them
to new customer requirements. However, with an increasing number of cloned systems, the …

Context: Most modern software systems exist in different variants to address a variety of
requirements, such as customer requests, regulations, or hardware restrictions. To benefit …

The features of a software product line-a portfolio of system variants-can be realized using
various implementation techniques (aka, variability mechanisms). Each technique …

Comprehending and characterizing the spread and interaction of features in a software
system is know to be difficult and error-prone. This paper presents FeatureVista, a …

Several variability representations have been proposed over the years. Software
maintenance in the presence of variability is known to be hard. One of the reasons is that …

The annotation-based variability of the C preprocessor (CPP) has a bad reputation
regarding comprehensibility and maintainability of software systems, but is widely adopted …

Software product lines can be implemented with different techniques. Those techniques can
be grouped into annotation-based and composition-based approaches, with complementary …