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 …

Over the last decades, the adoption of Software Product Line (SPL) engineering for
supporting software reuse has increased. An SPL can be extracted from one single product …

Although Software Product Lines are recurrently praised as an efficient paradigm for
systematic reuse, practical adoption remains challenging. For bottom-up Software Product …

Fast changing hardware and software technologies in addition to larger and more
specialized customer bases demand software tailored to meet very diverse requirements …

Developers commonly use features to define, manage, and communicate functionalities of a
system. Unfortunately, the locations of features in code and other characteristics (feature …

We address the problem of automating 1) the analysis of existing similar model variants and
2) migrating them into a software product line. Our approach, named MoVaPL, considers the …

The notion of features is commonly used to describe, structure, and communicate the
functionalities of a system. Unfortunately, features and their locations in software artifacts are …

The notion of features is commonly used to maintain, evolve, reuse, or re-engineer a
software system. To this end, developers need to understand the features and their …

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

Feature location is a traceability recovery activity to identify the implementation elements
associated to a characteristic of a system. Besides its relevance for software maintenance of …